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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. Kinetic

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


2. Chicanery

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.


3. Xenophobe

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

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

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

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


4. Incontrovertible

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Having one’s true identity concealed.

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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.


5. Bowdlerize

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

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

Not interesting; dull:

The lowest point


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