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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 Elementary 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. exhilarate

Flexible, liable to change.

The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.

A mixture of various ingredients or elements.

To make happy, cheer up.


2. jostle

To overpower; to subdue; to put down.

To bump into or brush against while in motion.

Existing or occurring at the moment.

Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.


3. accomplish

To come into view.

Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.

To finish successfully

To build or form something by assembling parts.


4. influence

The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

Anything that may be possible; a possibility

Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed

The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.


5. furtive

Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed

The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

To end, to come to an end.

Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.


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