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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. Bandolier

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

Self-examination.

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd


2. Ozone

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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


3. Yacht

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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

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

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings


4. Commemorate

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

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


5. Guerrilla

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

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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

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


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