Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

SITUATED

DEFINITION:
Having a site, situation, or location.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
If the Netflix deal goes through, it could have implications for New Mexico, with one of Netflix’s major facilities situated in Albuquerque’s Mesa del Sol community, local industry experts say.
The Albuquerque Journal, 01/12/2026

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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. Renegade

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

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


2. Participle

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.


3. Vacillate

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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


4. Mutation

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.


5. Hypocrisy

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

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

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


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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.