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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. Exponent

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


2. Tsunami

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

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


3. Quarantine

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

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


4. Antibody

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

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


5. Decorum

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

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

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


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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.