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. Pulverize

► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

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

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

► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

2. Quota

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

► A proportional part or share.

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

3. Mosaic

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

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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

► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

4. Introspection

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

► Self-examination.

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

5. Vertebrate

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

► The arrangement of events in time

► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

► Having a backbone or spinal column.

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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.