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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. Infrastructure

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


2. Kowtow

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

To show servile deference.

Lacking social polish; tactless.


3. Ziggurat

Put together; created.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Playfully jocular; humorous


4. Deleterious

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

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.


5. Recapitulate

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

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.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


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