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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1. Bamboozle

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

► 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.

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

► The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

2. Gargoyle

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

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

3. Rainforest

► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

► To proclaim publicly

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

4. Tundra

► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

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

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

5. Antibody

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

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

► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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

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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.