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. Feckless
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
2. Laissez faire
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To proceed completely around:
3. Irony
► To proceed completely around:
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
4. Nonsectarian
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
5. Hegemony
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
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.