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
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
2. Abjure
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
3. Circumnavigate
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To proceed completely around:
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
4. Deleterious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
5. Precipitous
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
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.