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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. Nadir

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

The lowest point

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

To show servile deference.


2. Enfranchise

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

A system of names used in an art or science:

Of or relating to money

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.


3. Filibuster

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

Division into ordered groups or categories.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.


4. Moiety

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

A part, portion, or share.

A diligent, dependable worker.


5. Gamete

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


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