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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. Toxin

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


2. Light-Year

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.


3. Repose

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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


4. Pulverize

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.


5. Decorum

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

Being without or almost without hope

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


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