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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. Evanescent

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

The lowest point

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


2. Parameter

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

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

A diligent, dependable worker.

To bring under control; conquer.


3. Incontrovertible

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.


4. Detritus

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

Put together; created.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.


5. Hegemony

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.


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