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

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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. Enervate

► A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

2. Quotidian

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► Everyday; commonplace.

► Tumultuous; stormy.

► To bring under control; conquer.

3. Wrought

► Clear to the understanding.

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

► Put together; created.

► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

4. Fiduciary

► 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.

► Playfully jocular; humorous

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

5. Epiphany

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

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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.