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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. Omnivore

A proportional part or share.

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

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


2. Recede

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

The arrangement of events in time

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


3. Vertebrate

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

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


4. Antibody

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive


5. Tranquility

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.


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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.