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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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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. Contradiction

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Logical incongruity

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.


2. Chromosome

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.


3. Deciduous

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

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


4. Photosynthesis

Having one’s true identity concealed.

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

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.


5. Parameter

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


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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.