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. Despondent

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

Being without or almost without hope

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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


2. Alliteration

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.


3. Vacillate

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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


4. Bamboozle

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.


5. Spectrum

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


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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.