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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. Thermodynamics

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

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.


2. Polymer

The lowest point

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

Clear to the understanding.

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


3. Expurgate

Of the same or similar nature or kind

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

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


4. Nomenclature

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

A system of names used in an art or science:

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

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


5. Gerrymander

To proceed completely around:

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

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

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.


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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.