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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. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

Acumen

Polymer

Irony

Fiduciary


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

Usurp

Euro

Abstemious

Sanguine


3. To proceed completely around:

Impeach

Circumnavigate

Vehement

Churlish


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

Photosynthesis

Gauche

Suffragist

Xenophobe


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

Paradigm

Belie

Jejune

Unctuous


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