Words in the News

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

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5 High School Words

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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. Nanotechnology

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

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

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

2. Jejune

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► Not interesting; dull:

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

3. Taxonomy

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► Logical incongruity

4. Photosynthesis

► A system of names used in an art or science:

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

► Put together; created.

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

5. Nonsectarian

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

► A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

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

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

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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.