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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. Typhoon

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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


2. Quarantine

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables


3. Exult

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

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

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


4. Plateau

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

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

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

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.


5. Tundra

A proportional part or share.

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

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


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