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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. Recede

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.


2. Symbiosis

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.


3. Embargo

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.


4. Rainforest

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


5. Participle

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.


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