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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. Participle

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

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

To proclaim publicly


2. Solstice

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Self-examination.


3. Impertinent

Self-examination.

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

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

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold


4. Recede

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

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

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark


5. Random

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


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