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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 High 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. Hubris

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Very talkative; garrulous.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


2. Polymer

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

Not interesting; dull:

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


3. Recapitulate

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.


4. Chromosome

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


5. Photosynthesis

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

A diligent, dependable worker.


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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.