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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 High 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. Chromosome

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.


2. Gerrymander

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

Division into ordered groups or categories.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.


3. Equinox

The lowest point

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

To proceed completely around:


4. Supercilious

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


5. Interpolate

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.


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