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. Suffrage

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


2. Pulverize

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

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

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


3. Chronology

The arrangement of events in time

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


4. Delegate

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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 person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


5. Vacillate

Self-examination.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

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


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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.