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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 Middle 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. Sacrifice

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

An embankment built to prevent flooding

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

The arrangement of events in time


2. Bamboozle

The arrangement of events in time

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


3. Immune

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.


4. Omnivore

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive


5. Jovial

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

To condescend to give or grant


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