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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
5 High 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. Facetious

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

Playfully jocular; humorous

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.


2. Belie

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.


3. Homogeneous

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.


4. Hubris

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality


5. Lexicon

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.


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