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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
5 High 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. Orthography

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

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


2. Infrastructure

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:


3. Chromosome

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

The lowest point

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality


4. Subjugate

To bring under control; conquer.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

Not interesting; dull:

To proceed completely around:


5. Fatuous

Not interesting; dull:

To proceed completely around:

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


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