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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 Middle 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. Bandolier

► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

2. Sect

► The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

► A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

3. Hieroglyphic

► The arrangement of events in time

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

► 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.

4. Symbiosis

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

5. Commemorate

► The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

► Self-examination.

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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