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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1. Salmonella

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

► A proportional part or share.

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

2. Labyrinth

► To proclaim publicly

► An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

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

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

3. Camouflage

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

► A schedule of prices or fees.

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

► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

4. Jovial

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

5. Ellipse

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

► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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

► 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.