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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. Wrought

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

Put together; created.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

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. Acumen

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

Not interesting; dull:

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.


3. Chromosome

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

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


4. Thermodynamics

The lowest point

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Playfully jocular; humorous


5. Inculcate

Playfully jocular; humorous

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.


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