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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 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. Omnivore

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


2. Sacrifice

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

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


3. Commemorate

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

To stress or emphasize; intensify

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy


4. Fallacy

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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


5. Gargoyle

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


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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.