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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. Virtuoso

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.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


2. Omnivore

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.


3. Ozone

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


4. Strategy

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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

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. Phloem

Self-examination.

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.


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