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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 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. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

Feckless

Circumlocution

Supercilious

Wrought


2. Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

Oligarchy

Mitosis

Vortex

Parameter


3. A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Quasar

Nihilism

Hemoglobin

Moiety


4. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

Impeach

Irony

Kowtow

Churlish


5. Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Laissez faire

Abjure

Nadir

Omnipotent


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