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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Tumult

An embankment built to prevent flooding

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


2. Quota

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

A proportional part or share.

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


3. Nebula

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

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.

Self-examination.

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.


4. Bizarre

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

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

A schedule of prices or fees.


5. Deign

A schedule of prices or fees.

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

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

To condescend to give or grant


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