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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. Enervate

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

A system of names used in an art or science:


2. Sanguine

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

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

Architectural.

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.


3. Acumen

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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


4. Taxonomy

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

Division into ordered groups or categories.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.


5. Vortex

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

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


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