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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 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. Hemoglobin

To make an accusation against.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.


2. Paradigm

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

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

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

The lowest point


3. Subjugate

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

The lowest point

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

To bring under control; conquer.


4. Respiration

To renounce under oath; forswear.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

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


5. Abrogate

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

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


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