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Words in the News

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

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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. Lexicon

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

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:


2. Laissez faire

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

To bring under control; conquer.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.


3. Auspicious

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

To proceed completely around:


4. Evanescent

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.


5. Contradiction

Logical incongruity

Put together; created.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.


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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.