Words in the News

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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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. Dialogue

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

► The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

2. Mutation

► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

3. Pulverize

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

► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

4. Introspection

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

► Self-examination.

► A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

5. Camouflage

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

► The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

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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.