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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. Abjure

Having one’s true identity concealed.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

To show servile deference.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.


2. Jejune

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

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

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Not interesting; dull:


3. Lexicon

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.


4. Sanguine

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


5. Gauche

Architectural.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

Lacking social polish; tactless.


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