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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 High 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. Paradigm

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

Not interesting; dull:

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality


2. Deciduous

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


3. Hypotenuse

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.


4. Oligarchy

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.


5. Equinox

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


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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.