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
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
2. Deciduous
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
3. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
4. Homogeneous
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
5. Gamete
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
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.