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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. Sacrifice

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

To proclaim publicly

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.


2. Symbiosis

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

To condescend to give or grant

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


3. Suffrage

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.


4. Despondent

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

Being without or almost without hope


5. Inference

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

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


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