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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. Camouflage

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

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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


2. Quarantine

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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


3. Malignant

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

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


4. Symbiosis

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

To cringe in fear

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.


5. Despondent

Being without or almost without hope

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


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