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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle 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. Technique

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


2. Immune

Being without or almost without hope

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


3. Vertebrate

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive


4. Commemorate

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


5. Guru

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.


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