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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 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. Vertebrate

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

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

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


2. Despondent

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

Being without or almost without hope

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.


3. Tempo

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

To proclaim publicly

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace


4. Wretched

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

A proportional part or share.

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


5. Zoology

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

A schedule of prices or fees.

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

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,


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