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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. Enervate

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


2. Soliloquy

Everyday; commonplace.

Of or relating to money

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

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.


3. Bowdlerize

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

Clear to the understanding.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Not interesting; dull:


4. Contradiction

Very talkative; garrulous.

Logical incongruity

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

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


5. Vortex

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

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

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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


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