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. Abjure

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

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

2. Incognito

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

► Logical incongruity

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

► Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

3. Polymer

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

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

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

4. Hypotenuse

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

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

► The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

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

5. Fiduciary

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

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

► To show servile deference.

► To proceed completely around:

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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.