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. Infrastructure
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
2. Deciduous
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► To proceed completely around:
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
3. Kinetic
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
4. Antebellum
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
5. Hubris
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
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.