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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. Yacht

► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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

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

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

2. Jaunty

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

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

3. Strategy

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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

4. Stereotype

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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

5. Cower

► To cringe in fear

► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

► Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

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