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 Middle 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. Accentuate

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

To stress or emphasize; intensify

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.


2. Toxin

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

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

A schedule of prices or fees.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


3. Maneuver

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.


4. Quota

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

A proportional part or share.


5. Labyrinth

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.


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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.