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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. Maneuver

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Self-examination.

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


2. Spectrum

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

To cringe in fear


3. Boisterous

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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


4. Tranquility

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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


5. Lichen

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

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


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