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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. Levee

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

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

An embankment built to prevent flooding


2. Ozone

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

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


3. Boycott

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

Being without or almost without hope

To condescend to give or grant

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.


4. Alliteration

To condescend to give or grant

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables


5. Malignant

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

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


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