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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. Kilometer

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

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

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


2. Quota

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

A proportional part or share.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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


3. Sect

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

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


4. Impertinent

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

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


5. Quarantine

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

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

Self-examination.

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.


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