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. Interpolate
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
2. Winnow
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
3. Hegemony
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
4. Parameter
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
5. Nihilism
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► To proceed completely around:
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.