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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Reciprocal

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Architectural.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,


2. Ziggurat

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

To proceed completely around:

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:


3. Circumlocution

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Playfully jocular; humorous


4. Taxonomy

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

Division into ordered groups or categories.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


5. Photosynthesis

Having a bad disposition; surly.

To bring under control; conquer.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.


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