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 Elementary 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. zeal

► The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

► To build or form something by assembling parts.

► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.

► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.

2. oppose

► To finish successfully

► To attempt to stop the progression of.

► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion

► The dividing line or location between two areas.

3. impact

► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.

► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.

► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.

4. topic

► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.

► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.

► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.

► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.

5. apprehensive

► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.

► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.

► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.

► To set fire to (something), to light (something)

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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.