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
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
2. Hemoglobin
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
3. Kinetic
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
4. Euro
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
5. Bowdlerize
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
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.