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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. Diffident

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

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


2. Metamorphosis

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

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


3. Obsequious

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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

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

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.


4. Mitosis

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.


5. Chromosome

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

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.


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