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 Middle 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. Omnivore

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd


2. Bamboozle

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

To proclaim publicly

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


3. Hypocrisy

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.


4. Jaunty

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.


5. Quandary

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.


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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.