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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. Silhouette

► A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

2. Light-Year

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

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

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

3. Zoology

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

4. Sect

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

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

► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

► A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

5. Deduction

► A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

► A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

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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.