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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. Random

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.


2. Stereotype

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

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

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

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


3. Quarantine

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

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

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

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.


4. Eclectic

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

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

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative


5. Omnivore

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.


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