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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. Abstemious

Division into ordered groups or categories.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

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


2. Soliloquy

To renounce under oath; forswear.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

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

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.


3. Polymer

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

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

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


4. Omnipotent

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

Put together; created.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.


5. Nihilism

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

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

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Tumultuous; stormy.


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