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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 Elementary 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. reflection

► The system of production and distribution and consumption.

► To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it

► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

2. compose

► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.

► To make happy, cheer up.

► To make something by merging parts.

► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.

3. serenity

► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.

► Brief, concise, to the point.

► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress

► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.

4. method

► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it

► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering

► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.

► A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.

5. construct

► The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

► To build or form something by assembling parts.

► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.

► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed

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