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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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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. Suffragist

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

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


2. Diffident

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

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

The lowest point

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


3. Evanescent

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

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

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.


4. Reciprocal

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

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


5. Hemoglobin

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

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

Very talkative; garrulous.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.


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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.