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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Chicanery

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.


2. Deleterious

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.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:


3. Expurgate

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

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

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.


4. Abstemious

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.


5. Totalitarian

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Playfully jocular; humorous

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,


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