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. Hologram

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

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

► The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

2. Renaissance

► A rebirth or revival.

► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

► 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.

► Self-examination.

3. Outrageous

► Self-examination.

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

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

4. Maneuver

► A schedule of prices or fees.

► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

► A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

5. Ozone

► A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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

► The arrangement of events in time

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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.