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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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1. Solstice

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

To condescend to give or grant


2. Marsupial

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.


3. Wretched

A proportional part or share.

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


4. Symbiosis

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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


5. Random

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


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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.