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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. Introspection

Self-examination.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


2. Guru

To condescend to give or grant

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

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


3. Cower

To cringe in fear

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

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 rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


4. Divulge

To proclaim publicly

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


5. Levee

An embankment built to prevent flooding

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

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

To stress or emphasize; intensify


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