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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. Evanescent

Not interesting; dull:

Logical incongruity

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


2. Notarize

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

The lowest point

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.


3. Hubris

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

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

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.


4. Hegemony

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

A system of names used in an art or science:

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


5. Gerrymander

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

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

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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


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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.