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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 High 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. Bellicose

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.


2. Xenophobe

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Put together; created.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:


3. Nanotechnology

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.


4. Reciprocal

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


5. Polymer

To bring under control; conquer.

A diligent, dependable worker.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,


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