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. Vaccine

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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

► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

2. Quota

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

► A proportional part or share.

► 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.

► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

3. Typhoon

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

4. Solstice

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

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

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

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

5. Sacrifice

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

► Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

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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.