Words in the News

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

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5 Middle School Words

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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. Random

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

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


2. Marsupial

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

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

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

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


3. Virtuoso

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.


4. Hologram

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


5. Technique

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


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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.