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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 Middle 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. Tempo

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive


2. Boisterous

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

Being without or almost without hope

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.


3. Silhouette

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.


4. Deign

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

To condescend to give or grant

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


5. Undulate

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

A proportional part or share.


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