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

Generate your own quiz
Select a grade level
 Elementary
 Middle School
 High School
Select a quiz type
 By words
 By Definitions
Select how many questions
5   10   15   20  

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. Parasite

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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


2. Participle

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


3. Maneuver

To stress or emphasize; intensify

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

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


4. Marsupial

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

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

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


5. Analogy

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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,


Get more Quizzes 

 Elementary School    Middle School   High School  

 By Word     By Definition    5  10  15  20 Questions

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.