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

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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. Deduction

► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

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

2. Gargoyle

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

3. Guerrilla

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

► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

4. Quarantine

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

► An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

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

5. Rainforest

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

► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

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

► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

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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.