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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. Suffragist

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

Put together; created.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


2. Nomenclature

A system of names used in an art or science:

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.


3. Hypotenuse

A part, portion, or share.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.


4. Totalitarian

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.


5. Impeach

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

To make an accusation against.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality


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