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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. Laissez faire

► To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

2. Thermodynamics

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

3. Enfranchise

► To proceed completely around:

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

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

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

4. Gamete

► 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.

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

5. Photosynthesis

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

► 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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