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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

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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. Bowdlerize

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

Of or relating to money

A system of names used in an art or science:


2. Enervate

A system of names used in an art or science:

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


3. Incognito

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

Having one’s true identity concealed.


4. Parabola

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Playfully jocular; humorous


5. Chromosome

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.


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