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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

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. Vortex

► To make an accusation against.

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

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

► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

2. Homogeneous

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

3. Hemoglobin

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

4. Quasar

► Very talkative; garrulous.

► A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

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

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

5. Oxidize

► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

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

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

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