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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 High 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. Evanescent

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Logical incongruity

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.


2. Totalitarian

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.


3. Acumen

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

To bring under control; conquer.


4. Notarize

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Not interesting; dull:


5. Hemoglobin

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Playfully jocular; humorous

A part, portion, or share.


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