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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 Middle 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. Light-Year

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

A proportional part or share.

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


2. Rainforest

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.


3. Guru

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

Being without or almost without hope


4. Metaphor

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

A schedule of prices or fees.


5. Nocturnal

A schedule of prices or fees.

A rebirth or revival.

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


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