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 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. Salmonella

► The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

► Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

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

2. Mosaic

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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

► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

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

3. Jovial

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

4. Protagonist

► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

5. Analogy

► The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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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.