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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. Analogy

► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

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

► To condescend to give or grant

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

2. Plateau

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

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

► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

3. Strategy

► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

► Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

► The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

4. Tsunami

► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

► A proportional part or share.

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

► A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

5. Embargo

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

► To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

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

► 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.