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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1. Spectrum

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

► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

2. Plateau

► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

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

► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

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

3. Polygon

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

► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

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

4. Symbiosis

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

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

► Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

5. Cower

► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

► To cringe in fear

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

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

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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.