Words in the News

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

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5 High School Words

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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. Enfranchise

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

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

2. Pecuniary

► To bring under control; conquer.

► Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

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

► Of or relating to money

3. Gamete

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

4. Circumlocution

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► 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.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

5. Quasar

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

► Very talkative; garrulous.

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

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

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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.