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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. Tautology

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► Tumultuous; stormy.

► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

2. Circumlocution

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

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

► A diligent, dependable worker.

► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

3. Xenophobe

► Of or relating to money

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

4. Loquacious

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

► Very talkative; garrulous.

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

5. Circumnavigate

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

► To proceed completely around:

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

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

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