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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. Chromosome

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

► Logical incongruity

► Put together; created.

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

2. Temblor

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

► Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

3. Homogeneous

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

4. Parabola

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

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

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

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

5. Detritus

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

► The lowest point

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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

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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.