Words in the News

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

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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. Loquacious

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

The lowest point

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

Very talkative; garrulous.


2. Chromosome

A part, portion, or share.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

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


3. Contradiction

Logical incongruity

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

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


4. Unctuous

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

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

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


5. Vacuous

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

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

Not interesting; dull:


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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.