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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. Technique

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

► A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

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

2. Silhouette

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

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

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

3. Despondent

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

► Being without or almost without hope

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

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

4. Aspire

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

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► 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.

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

5. Bizarre

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

► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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