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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. Zoology

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

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

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


2. Kilometer

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

To stress or emphasize; intensify


3. Quandary

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


4. Yacht

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

A rebirth or revival.


5. Laconic

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

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

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

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


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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.