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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

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

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


2. Sect

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

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

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


3. Hypocrisy

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


4. Rainforest

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

To cringe in fear

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

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


5. Bandolier

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

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

Having a backbone or spinal column.

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.


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