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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 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. Ellipse

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

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

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

2. Malignant

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

► Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

3. Hypocrisy

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

► The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

4. Inference

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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

► A schedule of prices or fees.

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

5. Fallacy

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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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.