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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. Vertebrate

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

Having a backbone or spinal column.


2. Mosaic

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

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

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

To cringe in fear


3. Nuisance

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

To cringe in fear

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

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.


4. Exult

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

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles


5. Immune

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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


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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.