10th Grade Words of the Day

This Words for the Day webpage helps grade 10 students learn words at their levels efficiently. In addition to showing words of the current day, the page also has words of the recent 15 or 50 days to review. It's a handy app for 10th-grade students to get words and their meanings, examples, and context sources.

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Animal Farm by George Orwell
 Word of the Day for Grade 10
Specified Day: 2025-09-24
apprehensionspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. fearful or uneasy anticipation of the future; act of seizing or capturing; understanding
All these things I saw without then knowing that I saw them, for I was in an agony of apprehension.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
On every point of general literature he displays unbounded knowledge and a quick and piercing apprehension.
Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
Hester repelled the offered medicine, at the same time gazing with strongly marked apprehension into his face.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
tributespeak speak spelling sentences 
n. payment in money made by one ruler or nation; tax; mark of respect; praiseworthy quality
This tribute to the unusual transformed and glorified her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
Almost any exhibition of complete self sufficiency draws a stunned tribute from me.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
The confidence he had thought fit to repose in me seemed a tribute to my discretion: I regarded and accepted it as such.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
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Words of the recent 15 days
2025-09-23   (Back to the Day)
  govern   Example sentences     speak
v. make and administer the public policy and affairs of
  formation   Example sentences     speak
n. a structure or arrangement of something; pattern
  scarlet   Example sentences     speak
a. of a brilliant red color
2025-09-22   (Back to the Day)
  ample   Example sentences     speak
a. more than enough in size or scope or capacity; fairly large
  heed   Example sentences     speak
v. pay attention to; listen to and consider
2025-09-19   (Back to the Day)
  siege   Example sentences     speak
n. seat, especially a royal seat; throne; rank; grade; sitting before a fortified place; surrounding or investing of a place by army
  furious   Example sentences     speak
a. extreme anger; raging; full of activity; energetic or rapid
2025-09-18   (Back to the Day)
  perpetual   Example sentences     speak
a. everlasting; continuing without interruption
  arrange   Example sentences     speak
v. put in proper order; dispose in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose
  reproach   Example sentences     speak
v. express disapproval or disappointment; bring shame upon; disgrace
2025-09-17   (Back to the Day)
  data   Example sentences     speak
n. collection of facts, observations, or other information related to a particular question or problem
  abode   Example sentences     speak
n. act of waiting; delay; stay or continuance in a place
2025-09-16   (Back to the Day)
  convey   Example sentences     speak
v. carry from one place to another; bear or transport
  hunger   Example sentences     speak
n. strong desire for something; feel the need to eat
  furnish   Example sentences     speak
v. provide; supply; equip with what is needed, especially to provide furniture for
2025-09-15   (Back to the Day)
  corrupt   Example sentences     speak
a. changed from sound to putrid state; spoiled; tainted
  revenge   Example sentences     speak
v. do punishment in return for injury or insult; avenge
2025-09-12   (Back to the Day)
  concern   Example sentences     speak
n. interest in any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety
  gesture   Example sentences     speak
n. motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling
2025-09-11   (Back to the Day)
  perceive   Example sentences     speak
v. become aware of through the senses; detect
  infinite   Example sentences     speak
a. unlimited or boundless, in time or space; without limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or excellence
  derive   Example sentences     speak
v. obtain or receive from a source; trace the origin or development of
2025-09-10   (Back to the Day)
  amid   Example sentences     speak
ad. in the middle of; among; surrounded by
  generation   Example sentences     speak
n. all offspring at same stage from common ancestor; interval of time between the birth of parents and their offspring
2025-09-09   (Back to the Day)
  appeal   Example sentences     speak
n. attraction; charm; attract; fascinate; challenge
  humanity   Example sentences     speak
n. kindness; virtue; all of the inhabitants of the earth
  disposition   Example sentences     speak
n. natural or acquired habit with tendency; act or means of getting rid of something
2025-09-08   (Back to the Day)
  forehead   Example sentences     speak
n. the part of the face above the eyes
  singular   Example sentences     speak
a. unique; extraordinary; being only one
2025-09-05   (Back to the Day)
  doctrine   Example sentences     speak
n. principles presented for belief, as by religious; principle of law; act of teaching; instruction
  melancholy   Example sentences     speak
a. gloomy; feeling of thoughtful sadness; affected by depression
2025-09-04   (Back to the Day)
  chamber   Example sentences     speak
n. a private room, typically a bedroom; compartment; a large room used for formal or public events
  comply   Example sentences     speak
v. yield assent; accord; agree, or acquiesce; adapt one's self; fulfill; accomplish
  dreadful   Example sentences     speak
a. very unpleasant; distasteful or shocking
2025-09-03   (Back to the Day)
  bore   Example sentences     speak
v. drill; make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill
  handsome   Example sentences     speak
a. skillful; handy; agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing appearance; attractive
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