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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 Middle 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. Guru

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.


2. Guerrilla

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.


3. Mutation

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

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

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.


4. Participle

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

An embankment built to prevent flooding

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.


5. Divulge

An embankment built to prevent flooding

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

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

To proclaim publicly


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