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 Middle 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. Levee

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

An embankment built to prevent flooding

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.


2. Quota

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

A proportional part or share.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.


3. Guerrilla

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


4. Vaccine

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


5. Sect

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


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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.