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

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1. Quasar

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

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

2. Infrastructure

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

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

► A system of names used in an art or science:

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

3. Sanguine

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

4. Nonsectarian

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

5. Laissez faire

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

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

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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

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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.