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 High 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. Belie

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

► A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

2. Respiration

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

3. Notarize

► To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

4. Hemoglobin

► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

5. Chicanery

► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

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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.