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.
Words in the News Quiz
5 High 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. Hegemony
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
2. Incontrovertible
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
3. Nihilism
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
4. Impeach
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► To make an accusation against.
5. Auspicious
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
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