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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 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. Precipitous

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

Clear to the understanding.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.


2. Belie

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.


3. Interpolate

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.


4. Enfranchise

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

Tumultuous; stormy.


5. Homogeneous

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

Tumultuous; stormy.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Of the same or similar nature or kind


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