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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.

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

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

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


2. Kilometer

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

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

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.


3. Unanimous

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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

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

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


4. Jaunty

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


5. Nebula

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

The arrangement of events in time

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness


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