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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. Plateau

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

Being without or almost without hope

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

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


2. Yacht

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

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

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.


3. Laconic

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

To cringe in fear

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.


4. Inference

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


5. Mosaic

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.


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