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. Antibody

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

► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

► 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 very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

2. Ultraviolet

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

► Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

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

► The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

3. Vacillate

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

4. Kilometer

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

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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

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

5. Hypocrisy

► The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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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.