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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. Hegemony

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

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

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

2. Circumnavigate

► To proceed completely around:

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

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

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

3. Antebellum

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

► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

4. Gamete

► A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

5. Thermodynamics

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

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

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

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

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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.