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. Circumnavigate

► To proceed completely around:

► 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.

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

2. Detritus

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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

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

3. Gerrymander

► A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

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

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

4. Irony

► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

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

5. Subjugate

► To bring under control; conquer.

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

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

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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.