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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 High 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. Suffragist

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Not interesting; dull:


2. Lugubrious

Not interesting; dull:

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

The lowest point


3. Pecuniary

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

Of or relating to money

To show servile deference.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality


4. Hegemony

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


5. Irony

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


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