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. Obsequious
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
2. Hegemony
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
3. Bowdlerize
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
4. Plasma
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
5. Diffident
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
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.