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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 Middle 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. Typhoon

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


2. Nocturnal

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

Being without or almost without hope

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


3. Sect

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

To cringe in fear


4. Metaphor

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.


5. Repose

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative


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