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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1. Technique

► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

► A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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

2. Tranquility

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

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

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

3. Unanimous

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

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

► Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

4. Renegade

► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

5. Commemorate

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

► The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

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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.