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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. Vaccine

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.


2. Plateau

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

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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

Being without or almost without hope


3. Wretched

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.


4. Bizarre

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


5. Virtuoso

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

To condescend to give or grant


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