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. Hologram

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

► To proclaim publicly

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

2. Phloem

► The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

► The arrangement of events in time

3. Hieroglyphic

► 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.

► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

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

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

4. Bizarre

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

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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

5. Boycott

► 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 have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► Having a backbone or spinal column.

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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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.