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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. Vehement

► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

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

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

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

2. Oligarchy

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

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

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

3. Respiration

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.