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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. Nanotechnology

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Logical incongruity

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.


2. Xenophobe

Clear to the understanding.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

Put together; created.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.


3. Equinox

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.


4. Nihilism

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.


5. Evanescent

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Tumultuous; stormy.

Not interesting; dull:

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.


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