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. Belie

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

2. Pecuniary

► Not interesting; dull:

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

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

► Of or relating to money

3. Quotidian

► Everyday; commonplace.

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

4. Oligarchy

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

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

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

5. Loquacious

► Put together; created.

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

► Very talkative; garrulous.

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

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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.