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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. Recede

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

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

Being without or almost without hope

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.


2. Zoology

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

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


3. Technique

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

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


4. Nocturnal

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


5. Heritage

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


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