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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. Usurp

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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

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


2. Recapitulate

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


3. Nanotechnology

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.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

Architectural.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.


4. Deleterious

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

Of the same or similar nature or kind

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.


5. Diffident

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

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

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.


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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.