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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

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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. Abstemious

Eating and drinking in moderation.

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

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

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.


2. Parabola

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

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

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


3. Recapitulate

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.


4. Abrogate

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.


5. Nonsectarian

To bring under control; conquer.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

Playfully jocular; humorous

A diligent, dependable worker.


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