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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. Quarantine

► Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

► Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

2. Despondent

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

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

► Being without or almost without hope

3. Unanimous

► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

► To condescend to give or grant

► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

4. Typhoon

► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

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

► Self-examination.

5. Ultraviolet

► 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.

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

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

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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.