Words in the News

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

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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. Recede

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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


2. Delegate

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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


3. Levee

An embankment built to prevent flooding

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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

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. Omnivore

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

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

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.

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.


5. Formidable

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.


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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.