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

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


2. Repose

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

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

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.


3. Antibody

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


4. Chronology

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

The arrangement of events in time

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

A rebirth or revival.


5. Bandolier

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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

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


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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.