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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

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

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

2. Jovial

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

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

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

3. Sacrifice

► Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

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

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

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

4. Dialogue

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

► Self-examination.

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

► Having a backbone or spinal column.

5. Hologram

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

► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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