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. Laconic

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

2. Spectrum

► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

► Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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

3. Deign

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

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

► To condescend to give or grant

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

4. Unanimous

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

► 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.

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

► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

5. Light-Year

► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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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.