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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. Virtuoso

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


2. Impertinent

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

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

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

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.


3. Boisterous

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

Self-examination.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


4. Delegate

To stress or emphasize; intensify

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

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

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


5. Voracious

A proportional part or share.

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

Being without or almost without hope

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.


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