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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

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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. Xylem

► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

► Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

2. Pulverize

► The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

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

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

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

3. Hologram

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

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

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

4. Sect

► A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

► Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

5. Formidable

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

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