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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. Rainforest

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

To proclaim publicly

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.


2. Quarantine

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

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


3. Formidable

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.


4. Guerrilla

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

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


5. Heritage

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

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


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