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. Division into ordered groups or categories.

Taxonomy

Soliloquy

Vacuous

Diffident


2. A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

Vacuous

Diffident

Kinetic

Gamete


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

Plasma

Lugubrious

Recapitulate

Tempestuous


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

Thermodynamics

Oxidize

Filibuster

Kowtow


5. Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Filibuster

Kowtow

Nanotechnology

Unctuous


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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.