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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. Protagonist

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


2. Immune

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


3. Wretched

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

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

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


4. Commemorate

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


5. Sacrifice

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

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

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


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