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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. Circumnavigate

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► To proceed completely around:

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

► To bring under control; conquer.

2. Taxonomy

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► Clear to the understanding.

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

3. Infrastructure

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► To show servile deference.

► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

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

4. Ziggurat

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

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

► A system of names used in an art or science:

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

5. Lexicon

► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

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