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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 

REMEDIATION

DEFINITION:
The action of remedying something, in particular of reversing or stopping environmental damage.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Chief Building Official Ron Wampler initially sent out a stop-work order by email on Wednesday to Marino Construction until a soil remediation plan is done, as advised by DEP officials.
The Key West Citizen, 03/02/2026

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. Salmonella

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion


2. Virtuoso

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

A proportional part or share.

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

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.


3. Lichen

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 fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


4. Silhouette

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

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


5. Chronology

The arrangement of events in time

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

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


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