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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. Maneuver

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.


2. Divulge

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

To proclaim publicly

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


3. Cower

To cringe in fear

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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.


4. Xylem

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.

Self-examination.

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


5. Alliteration

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

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables


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