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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. Sect

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark


2. Accentuate

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

To stress or emphasize; intensify

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


3. Polygon

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

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness


4. Exult

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.


5. Yacht

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

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.

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


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