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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 High 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. Impeach

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

To make an accusation against.

Put together; created.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.


2. Lugubrious

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.


3. Yeoman

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

A diligent, dependable worker.


4. Circumnavigate

To show servile deference.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

To proceed completely around:

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


5. Ziggurat

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.


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