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. Vacillate

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

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

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

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


2. Exult

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

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

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


3. Tranquility

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


4. Salmonella

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

To proclaim publicly

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

A schedule of prices or fees.


5. Suffrage

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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


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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.