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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 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. Gauche

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

To renounce under oath; forswear.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.


2. Unctuous

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.


3. Mitosis

Having one’s true identity concealed.

Put together; created.

A diligent, dependable worker.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.


4. Metamorphosis

A part, portion, or share.

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,


5. Soliloquy

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

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

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.


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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.