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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. Metaphor

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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


2. Chronology

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

The arrangement of events in time

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

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


3. Impertinent

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

To condescend to give or grant

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold


4. Commemorate

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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


5. Laconic

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.


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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.