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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 Middle 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. Bizarre

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

To proclaim publicly

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


2. Eclectic

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.


3. Vacillate

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


4. Jaunty

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

A schedule of prices or fees.


5. Hologram

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

A schedule of prices or fees.

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.


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