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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. Nebula

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

An embankment built to prevent flooding


2. Flourish

To proclaim publicly

To cringe in fear

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.


3. Ellipse

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

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


4. Typhoon

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

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


5. Deduction

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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.


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