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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. Gauche

Lacking social polish; tactless.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

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.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.


2. Bowdlerize

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

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

The lowest point

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


3. Tectonic

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.

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

Architectural.

Logical incongruity


4. Incontrovertible

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.

A system of names used in an art or science:

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


5. Vacuous

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

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

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

Not interesting; dull:


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