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 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. Participle

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

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.


2. Dialogue

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

A schedule of prices or fees.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative


3. Mosaic

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

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


4. Fallacy

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.


5. Enthusiastic

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

To proclaim publicly

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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


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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.