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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. Vaccine

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

A schedule of prices or fees.


2. Ultraviolet

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.


3. Typhoon

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

To proclaim publicly

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


4. Deign

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

To condescend to give or grant

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


5. Analogy

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


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