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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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1. Inference

► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

2. Plateau

► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

► The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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

3. Malignant

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

► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

4. Antibody

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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

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

► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

5. Hologram

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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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.

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