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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. Deciduous

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.


2. Incognito

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

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

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


3. Inculcate

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

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

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


4. Antebellum

Very talkative; garrulous.

Having a bad disposition; surly.

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

Put together; created.


5. Omnipotent

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.


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