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
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
2. Lugubrious
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► To make an accusation against.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
3. Infrastructure
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
4. Hypotenuse
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
5. Parameter
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
► 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.