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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. Deleterious

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

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Playfully jocular; humorous


2. Pecuniary

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Of or relating to money

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.


3. Expurgate

Architectural.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

To proceed completely around:


4. Obsequious

Everyday; commonplace.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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


5. Enfranchise

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

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

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.


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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.