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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. Aspire

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


2. Impertinent

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

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


3. Nuisance

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.

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

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.


4. Voracious

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

A rebirth or revival.

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

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


5. Chronology

To condescend to give or grant

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

The arrangement of events in time

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


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