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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. Boisterous

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


2. Tumult

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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


3. Maneuver

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

A proportional part or share.

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

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.


4. Recede

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

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

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.


5. Polygon

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.


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