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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 

LITIGANT

DEFINITION:
Someone involved in a lawsuit.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
With the widespread and transformative use of artificial intelligence — particularly generative AI — in daily life, federal and state courts in New Mexico are finding self-represented litigants and some attorneys filing legal cases containing false or misleading information.
The Albuquerque Journal, 04/13/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 Elementary 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. diminish

Dark, faint or indistinct.

A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.

A great amount or number, often of people.

To make smaller.


2. repugnant

To build or form something by assembling parts.

The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it

Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion

An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.


3. furtive

Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering

Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements


4. ember

A glowing piece of coal or wood.

Brief, concise, to the point.

To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.

The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object


5. circumference

The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object

To come into view.

The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.

The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.


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