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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 Elementary 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. sociable

► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.

► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way

► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.

2. scurry

► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.

► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion

► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,

► Capable of doing many things competently

3. engross

► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,

► Capable of doing many things competently

► The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.

► To completely engage the attention of.

4. degree

► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.

► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.

► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.

► The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

5. conspicuous

► The extent to which something matters; importance

► Obvious or easy to notice.

► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.

► One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

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