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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

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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. Gamete

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

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

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

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.


2. Antebellum

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


3. Enfranchise

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

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

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

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


4. Homogeneous

Of the same or similar nature or kind

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.


5. Circumlocution

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.


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