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. Aspire

► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

2. Solstice

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

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

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

3. Ellipse

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

► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

► A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

► To condescend to give or grant

4. Deduction

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

► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

5. Antibody

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

► The arrangement of events in time

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

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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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.