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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Recede

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


2. Embargo

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

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.


3. Guerrilla

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

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

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


4. Ellipse

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

Having a backbone or spinal column.


5. Nebula

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness


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