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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. Vertebrate

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

Having a backbone or spinal column.

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

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.


2. Nocturnal

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

A proportional part or share.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


3. Guerrilla

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

An embankment built to prevent flooding

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

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion


4. Laconic

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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


5. Sacrifice

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

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

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


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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.