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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 High 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. Abrogate

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


2. Abstemious

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.


3. Nihilism

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

Put together; created.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.


4. Fiduciary

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Of or relating to money

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.


5. Loquacious

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

Very talkative; garrulous.

To show servile deference.

Logical incongruity


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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.