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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. Churlish

A diligent, dependable worker.

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

Having a bad disposition; surly.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


2. Oligarchy

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

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

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.


3. Incontrovertible

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

A part, portion, or share.

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

Playfully jocular; humorous


4. Xenophobe

Playfully jocular; humorous

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

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

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


5. Tectonic

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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

Architectural.


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