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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 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. Deleterious

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Put together; created.

A part, portion, or share.


2. Tautology

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

Division into ordered groups or categories.

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. Bellicose

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

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


4. Diffident

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

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

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

Having a bad disposition; surly.


5. Metamorphosis

Clear to the understanding.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.


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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.