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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 

CANVASS

DEFINITION:
A systematic approach to interviewing residents, merchants, and others who are in the immediate vicinity of a crime and may have useful information.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
In a press release, police said Lewisville Fire Department officials pronounced the man deceased on the scene. Police started a homicide investigation immediately, and canvassed the area in search of witnesses.
The Denton Record-Chronicle, 09/14/2026

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. similar

Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.

Emitting light; glowing brightly

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

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.


2. pristine

A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.

Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied

Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)

Brief, concise, to the point.


3. counter

Brief, concise, to the point.

Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed

To cause to float easily or gently through the air

A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.


4. value

Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,

The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

Dependent on each other


5. bluff

An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.

The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.

The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number

An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.


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