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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 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. The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Euro

Respiration

Tectonic

Incognito


2. The lowest point

Tectonic

Incognito

Antebellum

Nadir


3. To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Feckless

Oxidize

Facetious

Quotidian


4. Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

Plasma

Reparation

Parameter

Nonsectarian


5. To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

Inculcate

Supercilious

Vehement

Gauche


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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.