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. Boycott

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

► To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

► Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

2. Phloem

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

► Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

► The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

3. Tempo

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

4. Exult

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

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

5. Deign

► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

► 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.

► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

► To condescend to give or grant

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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.