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 Middle 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. Ozone

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

► To cringe in fear

► Being without or almost without hope

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

2. Gargoyle

► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

► Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

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

3. Vertebrate

► A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

► The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

► Having a backbone or spinal column.

► The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

4. Quota

► A proportional part or share.

► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

5. Malignant

► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

► To condescend to give or grant

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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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.