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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. Tariff

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

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

► A schedule of prices or fees.

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

2. Delegate

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

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

3. Sect

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

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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

4. Exponent

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

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

► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

5. Polygon

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

► Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

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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.