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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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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. Kinetic

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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

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.

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.


2. Vacuous

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.


3. Infrastructure

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.


4. Kowtow

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

To show servile deference.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.


5. Reparation

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

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

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.


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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.