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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. Divulge

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

To proclaim publicly

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.


2. Ultraviolet

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

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

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.


3. Hologram

Having a backbone or spinal column.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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


4. Fallacy

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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.

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


5. Sacrifice

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

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

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

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


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