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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. Quandary

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


2. Wretched

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

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

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


3. Renaissance

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

A rebirth or revival.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Being without or almost without hope


4. Guerrilla

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

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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


5. Impertinent

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

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold


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