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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. Zoology

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

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

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

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


2. Deduction

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

To proclaim publicly

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

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


3. Guru

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

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


4. Antibody

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

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

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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


5. Random

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.


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