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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. Quandary

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

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

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.


2. Toxin

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

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.


3. Alliteration

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

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

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


4. Dialogue

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


5. Antibody

Being without or almost without hope

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


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