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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. Nadir

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

The lowest point

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


2. Xenophobe

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.


3. Moiety

A part, portion, or share.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

To proceed completely around:


4. Gamete

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

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


5. Chromosome

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

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

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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


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