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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. Impeach

To make an accusation against.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.


2. Enervate

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

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

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


3. Precipitous

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality


4. Photosynthesis

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

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.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

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


5. Incontrovertible

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Very talkative; garrulous.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,


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