Words in the News

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

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5 Elementary 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. exasperation

The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.

To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.

A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.

More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.


2. counter

More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.

A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.

Dark, faint or indistinct.


3. deft

Quick and neat in action; skillful.

To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.

The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.


4. chronological

To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.

In order of time from the earliest to the latest

A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.

Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)


5. furtive

Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

Open resistance; bold disobedience.

A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.

Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements


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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.