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

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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. Tumult

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

► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

► A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

2. Zoology

► The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

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

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

► To condescend to give or grant

3. Participle

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

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

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

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

4. Tariff

► Self-examination.

► A schedule of prices or fees.

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

► Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

5. Pulverize

► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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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.