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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. Mutation

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

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

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

A proportional part or share.


2. Outrageous

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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


3. Quandary

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.


4. Symbiosis

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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


5. Tumult

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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

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

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


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