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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. Soliloquy

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.

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

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

Having one’s true identity concealed.


2. Tautology

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

To proceed completely around:

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

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


3. Contradiction

Logical incongruity

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.


4. Deciduous

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

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

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

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


5. Oligarchy

Tumultuous; stormy.

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

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.


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