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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.
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 Middle 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. Kilometer

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

To condescend to give or grant

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).


2. Quarantine

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


3. Dialogue

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace


4. Jovial

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.


5. Tundra

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


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