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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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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. Participle

► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

► A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

2. Omnivore

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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

► Self-examination.

► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

3. Sect

► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

► A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

► A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

4. Renaissance

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

► A rebirth or revival.

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

► Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

5. Vaccine

► A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

► Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

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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.