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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 Elementary 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. convey

Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition

To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle

Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.

Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.


2. aplomb

Self-confidence; poise; composure.

Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread

Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.


3. jostle

Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements

To bump into or brush against while in motion.

The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.


4. fragrance

To come into view.

A pleasant smell or odour.

To make happy, cheer up.

Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)


5. sabotage

A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress

Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts

Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way


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