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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 High 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. Equinox

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.


2. Totalitarian

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

Tumultuous; stormy.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.


3. Nomenclature

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

A system of names used in an art or science:

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.


4. Vortex

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Of the same or similar nature or kind


5. Oligarchy

Of the same or similar nature or kind

To show servile deference.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

Architectural.


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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.