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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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. Orthography

► To bring under control; conquer.

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

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

2. Thermodynamics

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

► To proceed completely around:

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

3. Equinox

► Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

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

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

4. Bowdlerize

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

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

► Of or relating to money

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

5. Circumlocution

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► The lowest point

► A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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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.