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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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1. Kowtow

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

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.

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.

To show servile deference.


2. Quasar

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

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

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


3. Deciduous

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

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

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


4. Temblor

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

Tumultuous; stormy.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

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


5. Tectonic

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

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

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

Architectural.


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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.