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. Boycott

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► A rebirth or revival.

► A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

► To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

2. Kilometer

► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

► To cringe in fear

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

► The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

3. Rainforest

► A proportional part or share.

► A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

► A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

► Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

4. Fallacy

► A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

► Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

► Being without or almost without hope

5. Tariff

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

► A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

► A schedule of prices or fees.

► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

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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.