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
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
2. Tectonic
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
3. Filibuster
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
4. Inculcate
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
5. Acumen
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.