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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. Reciprocal

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

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.

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Everyday; commonplace.


2. Soliloquy

Everyday; commonplace.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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.

Having a bad disposition; surly.


3. Equinox

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

A system of names used in an art or science:


4. Filibuster

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

A system of names used in an art or science:

The lowest point

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


5. Photosynthesis

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

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.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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


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