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. Participle

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

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

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

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

2. Exponent

► Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

3. Nuisance

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

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

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

4. Quota

► A proportional part or share.

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

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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

5. Tundra

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

► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

► A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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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.