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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 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. To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Recapitulate

Nomenclature

Notarize

Irony


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

Notarize

Irony

Thermodynamics

Expurgate


3. The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

Mitosis

Lugubrious

Lexicon

Antebellum


4. To make an accusation against.

Impeach

Epiphany

Orthography

Suffragist


5. Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

Fiduciary

Reparation

Unctuous

Fatuous


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