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 High 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. Bellicose

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

2. Abjure

► Everyday; commonplace.

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

3. Parameter

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

4. Tautology

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

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

► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

5. Metamorphosis

► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

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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.