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. Formidable

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


2. Embargo

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

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

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

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


3. Jovial

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A rebirth or revival.

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding


4. Kilometer

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.


5. Boisterous

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.


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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.