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. Antibody

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

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

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.


2. Rainforest

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

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


3. Phloem

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

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

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.


4. Random

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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


5. Cower

To cringe in fear

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

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation


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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.