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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. Marsupial

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


2. Recede

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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

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


3. Tariff

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

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

A schedule of prices or fees.


4. Phloem

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

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

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

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


5. Lichen

A proportional part or share.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

To cringe in fear


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