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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. Xylem

A schedule of prices or fees.

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

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.

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.


2. Mutation

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal


3. Omnivore

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


4. Fallacy

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

To stress or emphasize; intensify


5. Voracious

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

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd


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