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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. Tundra

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

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

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


2. Participle

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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


3. Antibody

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

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

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus


4. Inference

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

To condescend to give or grant

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


5. Exponent

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

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.


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