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
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
2. Deleterious
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
3. Taxonomy
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
4. Vortex
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
5. Bellicose
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
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.