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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. Undulate

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


2. Rainforest

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

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

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

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.


3. Cower

To cringe in fear

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

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

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


4. Sect

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

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.


5. Exult

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


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