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. Tectonic
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
2. Hegemony
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
3. Vortex
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
4. Lucid
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
5. Ziggurat
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
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.