Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ALLOCATION

DEFINITION:
The act or process of giving out parts of a whole.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Under those same drought agreements, Nevada’s allocation would be cut to 270,000 acre-feet if Lake Mead were to fall to 1,025 feet.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 05/29/2023

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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. Eclectic

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

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.


2. Enthusiastic

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

To condescend to give or grant

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


3. Vaccine

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


4. Despondent

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

Being without or almost without hope


5. Pulverize

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

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

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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


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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.