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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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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. Technique

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

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

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


2. Vacillate

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

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

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


3. Rainforest

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


4. Maneuver

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

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


5. Solstice

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

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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


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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.