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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 High 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. Nanotechnology

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.


2. Tectonic

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Architectural.


3. Respiration

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.


4. Contradiction

Everyday; commonplace.

Logical incongruity

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.


5. Facetious

To proceed completely around:

Having one’s true identity concealed.

Playfully jocular; humorous

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.


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