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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. Quarantine

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

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

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

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

2. Deign

► To condescend to give or grant

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

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

3. Boycott

► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

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

4. Laconic

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

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

5. Recede

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

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

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

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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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.