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

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. Boisterous

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

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.


2. Hologram

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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


3. Enthusiastic

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


4. Light-Year

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

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


5. Maneuver

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.


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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.