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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. Parasite

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

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

A schedule of prices or fees.

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


2. Deduction

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

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

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


3. Dialogue

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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


4. Wretched

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

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

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


5. Heritage

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


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