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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. Metaphor

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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

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


2. Kilometer

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


3. Formidable

To proclaim publicly

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

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.


4. Bandolier

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

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

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

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


5. Nocturnal

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

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

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

To condescend to give or grant


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