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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. Subjugate

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

To bring under control; conquer.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.


2. Gerrymander

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

Not interesting; dull:

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

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


3. Contradiction

Logical incongruity

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.


4. Facetious

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Playfully jocular; humorous

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.


5. Lugubrious

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

Architectural.

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

Clear to the understanding.


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