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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. Guerrilla

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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

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

2. Tempo

► The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

► A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

3. Salmonella

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

► Being without or almost without hope

► To proclaim publicly

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

4. Decorum

► To cringe in fear

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

5. Commemorate

► The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

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

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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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.