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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 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. Deleterious

► A part, portion, or share.

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

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

2. Filibuster

► Logical incongruity

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

► Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

► The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

3. Infrastructure

► A system of names used in an art or science:

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

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

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

4. Enfranchise

► To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

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

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

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

5. Homogeneous

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

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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.