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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 High 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. Homogeneous

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

► To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

2. Bellicose

► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

3. Deciduous

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

► A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

4. Jejune

► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

► Not interesting; dull:

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

5. Subjugate

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

► To bring under control; conquer.

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

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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.