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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. Kowtow

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

To show servile deference.

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

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.


2. Evanescent

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.


3. Respiration

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

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.

Playfully jocular; humorous


4. Feckless

Playfully jocular; humorous

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.


5. Irony

Of or relating to money

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.


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