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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. Hegemony

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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


2. Evanescent

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

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


3. Bellicose

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

Tumultuous; stormy.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.


4. Orthography

Tumultuous; stormy.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.


5. Nomenclature

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

Clear to the understanding.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

A system of names used in an art or science:


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