Words in the News

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

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5 Middle School Words

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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. Tumult

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

A schedule of prices or fees.


2. Immune

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

Being without or almost without hope

An embankment built to prevent flooding


3. Omnivore

Being without or almost without hope

An embankment built to prevent flooding

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.


4. Outrageous

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


5. Hologram

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.


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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.