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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. Tempestuous

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

► Tumultuous; stormy.

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

2. Parabola

► A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

3. Evanescent

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

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

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

4. Nomenclature

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► Everyday; commonplace.

► A system of names used in an art or science:

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

5. Hemoglobin

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

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

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

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

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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.