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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. Typhoon

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

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

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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


2. Metaphor

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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


3. Heritage

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

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

A rebirth or revival.


4. Symbiosis

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

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy


5. Random

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

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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

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


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