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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. Boisterous

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

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

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

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

2. Analogy

► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

► Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

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

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

3. Alliteration

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

► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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

4. Hypocrisy

► The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

► The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

5. Tundra

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

► Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

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

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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.