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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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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. Stereotype

To cringe in fear

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.


2. Malignant

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

A proportional part or share.


3. Strategy

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold


4. Accentuate

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

To stress or emphasize; intensify

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal


5. Eclectic

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.


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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.