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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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1. Yacht

► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

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

► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

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

2. Ultraviolet

► Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

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

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

3. Alliteration

► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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

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

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

4. Spectrum

► The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

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

► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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

5. Malignant

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

► Self-examination.

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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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.