Words in the News

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 High 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. Irony

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

► Put together; created.

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

► To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

2. Lucid

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

► To show servile deference.

► Clear to the understanding.

3. Abrogate

► Logical incongruity

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

4. Photosynthesis

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

► A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

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

5. Antebellum

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

► To proceed completely around:

► Of or relating to money

► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

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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.