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
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
2. Respiration
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
3. Hegemony
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
4. Yeoman
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
5. Interpolate
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
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.