Words in the News

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. Virtuoso

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

► A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

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

2. Pulverize

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

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

► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

3. Jaunty

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

► A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

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

► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

4. Participle

► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

► A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

► A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

5. Voracious

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

► A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

► Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

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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.