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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. Paradigm

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

The lowest point

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.


2. Evanescent

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

A diligent, dependable worker.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


3. Jejune

A part, portion, or share.

Not interesting; dull:

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.


4. Notarize

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

Playfully jocular; humorous

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.


5. Gerrymander

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


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