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. Fallacy

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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

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


2. Ozone

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

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

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


3. Virtuoso

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.


4. Outrageous

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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

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


5. Polygon

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.


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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.