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

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Abrogate

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.


2. Quasar

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

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

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


3. Chromosome

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

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

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


4. Omnipotent

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

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.


5. Lucid

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

Clear to the understanding.

To make an accusation against.

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


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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.