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

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. Deign

To condescend to give or grant

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.


2. Outrageous

An embankment built to prevent flooding

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


3. Boisterous

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


4. Repose

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

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

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.


5. Pulverize

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

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

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

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


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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.