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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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1. Accentuate

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

► Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

2. Boycott

► 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

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

3. Repose

► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

4. Metaphor

► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

► A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

5. Commemorate

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

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

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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.