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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. Spectrum

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

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

A schedule of prices or fees.

To cringe in fear


2. Metaphor

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

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

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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


3. Solstice

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

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.


4. Aspire

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

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

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


5. Levee

An embankment built to prevent flooding

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

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.


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