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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. Lichen

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

The arrangement of events in time

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

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


2. Divulge

A proportional part or share.

To proclaim publicly

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.


3. Enthusiastic

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


4. Technique

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


5. Renaissance

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

A rebirth or revival.

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

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


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