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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 

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

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. Soliloquy

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

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.


2. Subjugate

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

To make an accusation against.

To bring under control; conquer.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.


3. Polymer

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

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

To proceed completely around:

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.


4. Nanotechnology

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

To renounce under oath; forswear.


5. Kowtow

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

To show servile deference.

Having one’s true identity concealed.


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