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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. Accentuate

► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

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

► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

2. Nebula

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

► A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

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

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

3. Aspire

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

► Being without or almost without hope

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

4. Antibody

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

► The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

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

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

5. Mosaic

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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

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

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

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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.