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. Embargo

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding


2. Laconic

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

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

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

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.


3. Fallacy

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

To cringe in fear


4. Solstice

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

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

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

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


5. Protagonist

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

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.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


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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.