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. Nuisance

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

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

► The arrangement of events in time

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

2. Levee

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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

3. Omnivore

► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

► To condescend to give or grant

► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

4. Toxin

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

► The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

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

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

5. Strategy

► The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

► Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

► A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

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

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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.