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. Aspire

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

► The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

2. Toxin

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

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

3. Despondent

► Being without or almost without hope

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

► The arrangement of events in time

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

4. Zoology

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

► A proportional part or share.

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

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

5. Hieroglyphic

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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

► 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.

► 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.