Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

INSPECTOR

DEFINITION:
An official employed to ensure that official regulations are obeyed, especially in public services.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are federal employees, and misconduct allegations are typically investigated by the agency’s Office of Professional Responsibility or by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of inspector General.
►The Key West Citizen, 03/16/2026

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5 Middle 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. Ozone

► A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

2. Camouflage

► The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

3. Participle

► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

► A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

4. Cower

► Being without or almost without hope

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

► To cringe in fear

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

5. Sacrifice

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

► Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

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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.