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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

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. Incontrovertible

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

► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

2. Thermodynamics

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

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

3. Quasar

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