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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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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. Ellipse

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

► To cringe in fear

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

► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

2. Kilometer

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

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

► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

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

3. Antibody

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

► A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

4. Zoology

► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

► The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

5. Spectrum

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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

► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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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.