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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.
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. Boycott

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

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

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion


2. Omnivore

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

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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

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


3. Tariff

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

A schedule of prices or fees.

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


4. Despondent

Being without or almost without hope

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

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal


5. Symbiosis

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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

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

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


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