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. Jovial

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


2. Guerrilla

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

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


3. Tumult

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

A proportional part or share.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


4. Light-Year

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

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

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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


5. Maneuver

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

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


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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.