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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. Hypocrisy

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

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

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


2. Guerrilla

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

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

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


3. Despondent

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Being without or almost without hope

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


4. Ozone

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

To cringe in fear

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

Having a backbone or spinal column.


5. Tranquility

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


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