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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. Delegate

To proclaim publicly

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative


2. Tundra

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


3. Hypocrisy

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


4. Jaunty

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold


5. Stereotype

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


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