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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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1. Exponent

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

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

2. Alliteration

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

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

► A schedule of prices or fees.

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

3. Hieroglyphic

► Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

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

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

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

4. Ozone

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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

► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

5. Suffrage

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

► The arrangement of events in time

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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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.