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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. Tautology

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Of or relating to money

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.


2. Infrastructure

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

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

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.


3. Temblor

To show servile deference.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

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

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.


4. Enfranchise

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


5. Photosynthesis

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.


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