Words in the News

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

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5 Middle 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. Strategy

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

A proportional part or share.

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.


2. Camouflage

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


3. Analogy

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


4. Bamboozle

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


5. Commemorate

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


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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.