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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Ultraviolet

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

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.


2. Marsupial

To cringe in fear

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

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


3. Exponent

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

The arrangement of events in time

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

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


4. Lichen

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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


5. Decorum

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

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.


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