Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

PREDOMINANT

DEFINITION:
Being the most noticeable or largest in number, or having the most power or influence.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Two predominant drivers of the economy — inflation (including from the war in Iran) and the potentially revolutionary artificial intelligence wave — highlight post-pandemic dualities and disparities.
The Key West Citizen, 05/25/2026

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5 Middle School Words

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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. Kilometer

A rebirth or revival.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).


2. Chronology

The arrangement of events in time

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy


3. Accentuate

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

To stress or emphasize; intensify


4. Flourish

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.


5. Deduction

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.


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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.