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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. Oxidize

► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

► To proceed completely around:

2. Oligarchy

► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

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

3. Omnipotent

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

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

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

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

4. Winnow

► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

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

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

5. Acumen

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

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

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