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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. Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

Lugubrious

Subjugate

Pecuniary

Sanguine


2. To picture falsely; misrepresent.

Belie

Taxonomy

Nonsectarian

Thermodynamics


3. Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Thermodynamics

Vehement

Laissez faire

Enervate


4. Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

Loquacious

Xenophobe

Deciduous

Kinetic


5. A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

Abrogate

Moiety

Yeoman

Chromosome


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