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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.
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. Metamorphosis

► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

2. Incognito

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

► To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

3. Parameter

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

► Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

4. Thermodynamics

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► 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.

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

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

5. Antebellum

► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

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

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

► To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

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