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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

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

To proclaim publicly

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

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


2. Nuisance

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

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

A proportional part or share.


3. Tsunami

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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

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


4. Lichen

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

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

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

To cringe in fear


5. Eclectic

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

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

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


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