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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.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

Having a bad disposition; surly.

Having one’s true identity concealed.


2. Gerrymander

Having a bad disposition; surly.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.


3. Pecuniary

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.

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

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

Of or relating to money


4. Jejune

Not interesting; dull:

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

Put together; created.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.


5. Inculcate

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

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


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