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. Commemorate

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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


2. Wretched

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


3. Toxin

An embankment built to prevent flooding

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

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

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.


4. Xylem

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

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

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.


5. Labyrinth

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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


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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.