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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. Hypotenuse

► 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.

► Playfully jocular; humorous

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

2. Notarize

► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

► A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

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

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

3. Sanguine

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.