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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1. Technique

► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

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

► Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

2. Stereotype

► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

► Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

3. Tumult

► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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

4. Malignant

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

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

5. Chronology

► The arrangement of events in time

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

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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.