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. Guerrilla

The arrangement of events in time

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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


2. Spectrum

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

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

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

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


3. Technique

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

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

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

Having a backbone or spinal column.


4. Dialogue

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

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


5. Divulge

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

To proclaim publicly

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

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.


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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.