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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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1. Eclectic

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

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

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


2. Tumult

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

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

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.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


3. Hieroglyphic

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

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

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.

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


4. Vaccine

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


5. Recede

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


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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.