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This Week's Word In The News 

REALLOCATE

DEFINITION:
To change the way that something is given or shared between people, groups, or organizations.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Carey said she would be “concerned with stocking the food pantries, but perhaps there is a better way to help for folks that had reallocate those funds somehow and then are either facing eviction or other things like that.”
The Key West Citizen, 12/08/2025

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5 Middle 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. Hologram

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

The arrangement of events in time

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).


2. Accentuate

A schedule of prices or fees.

To stress or emphasize; intensify

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.


3. Undulate

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


4. Mosaic

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


5. Omnivore

A rebirth or revival.

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


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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.