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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. Hegemony

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

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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

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


2. Kowtow

To show servile deference.

A diligent, dependable worker.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,


3. Incognito

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

Having one’s true identity concealed.


4. Photosynthesis

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

To proceed completely around:

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.

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


5. Soliloquy

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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.

Of or relating to money

To bring under control; conquer.


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