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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. Kowtow

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

To show servile deference.


2. Diffident

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

Everyday; commonplace.

Having a bad disposition; surly.


3. Chromosome

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

Put together; created.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


4. Moiety

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

A part, portion, or share.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.


5. Paradigm

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

Architectural.


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