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. Nocturnal

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

► To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

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

► To proclaim publicly

2. Enthusiastic

► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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

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

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

3. Recede

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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

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

4. Quandary

► Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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

5. Xylem

► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

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

► Self-examination.

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

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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.