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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. Enthusiastic

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

To condescend to give or grant


2. Tumult

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

To condescend to give or grant

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


3. Inference

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


4. Ultraviolet

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.


5. Embargo

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


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