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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. Feckless

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

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


2. Subjugate

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

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

To bring under control; conquer.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.


3. Chromosome

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

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

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


4. Facetious

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

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

Logical incongruity

Playfully jocular; humorous


5. Epiphany

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

Very talkative; garrulous.

Architectural.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


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