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
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
2. Impeach
► To make an accusation against.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
3. Auspicious
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
4. Infrastructure
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. Laissez faire
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
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.