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. Typhoon

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

Having a backbone or spinal column.


2. Hypocrisy

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

To condescend to give or grant


3. Guerrilla

To condescend to give or grant

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

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


4. Analogy

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


5. Omnivore

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.


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Common Core State Standard
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.