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. Unanimous

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

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

2. Renaissance

► Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

► A rebirth or revival.

► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

3. Yacht

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

► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

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

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

4. Boycott

► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

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

► A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

► 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

5. Participle

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

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

► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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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.