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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. Sect

► A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

► A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

2. Repose

► 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

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

► Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

3. Hieroglyphic

► 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.

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

4. Outrageous

► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

► A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

5. Metaphor

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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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.