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. Flourish

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive


2. Ozone

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


3. Lichen

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

A proportional part or share.


4. Repose

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

A proportional part or share.

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

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


5. Despondent

Being without or almost without hope

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


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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.