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Common Core State Standard
LS.CCS.4/5/6 Grades 3-12: Students are asked to determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words through multiple choice vocabulary quizzes. Quizzes are designed to help students demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in words, acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words, and gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to its overall meaning or function in a sentence.
This Week's Word In The News 

CONDUIT

DEFINITION:
A means of transmitting or distributing.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
It’s the only conduit for those without a direct relationship with Banksy to reach out to the artist, whose identity has never been confirmed.
The Tampa Bay Times, 08/03/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
Then see if you can find the word in your newspaper -- the print edition, the website or the digital edition and copy the sentence for context. NOTE: High School words are much harder to find!


1. Euro

Lacking social polish; tactless.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.


2. Belie

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


3. Sanguine

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


4. Precipitous

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.


5. Thermodynamics

Very talkative; garrulous.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.


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