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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. Nihilism

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

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.


2. Unctuous

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

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.

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.


3. Enfranchise

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Architectural.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.


4. Tempestuous

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

Tumultuous; stormy.


5. Circumlocution

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

A system of names used in an art or science:

Having a bad disposition; surly.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.


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