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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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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. Flourish

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Having a backbone or spinal column.

To proclaim publicly

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


2. Exponent

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


3. Deign

To condescend to give or grant

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


4. Outrageous

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.


5. Hieroglyphic

A proportional part or share.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.


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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.