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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.
This Week's Word In The News 

JEOPARDIZE

DEFINITION:
Put (someone or something) into a situation in which there is a danger of loss, harm, or failure

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“Pursuing the primary further would only jeopardize the likelihood of defeating Maura Healey in November.”
The Boston Herald, 05/11/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Strategy

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

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.


2. Embargo

To stress or emphasize; intensify

A schedule of prices or fees.

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

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


3. Boycott

To proclaim publicly

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

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion


4. Symbiosis

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

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


5. Light-Year

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

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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


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