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: 2026-01-15
banspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. official prohibition; decree that prohibits something
If you go or come, eat or drink, bless or ban, 'Pax vobiscum' carries you through it all.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
propensityspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. natural inclination; tendency or preference; predilection
Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led him likewise to punishment.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44
I was conscious, even when I took the draught, of a more unbridled, a more furious propensity to ill.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
A propensity to be saucy was one; and a perverse will, that indulged children invariably acquire, whether they be good tempered or cross.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
indiscreetspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. lacking discretion; injudicious
He visited me several times after that and each time I was indiscreet.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
Once, she whispered, she was going by when an indiscreet window-shade had been left up a couple of inches.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
If Carol was so indiscreet as to murmur that she had a small headache, instantly the two Smails and Kennicott were at it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
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Words of the recent 15 days
2026-01-14   (Back to the Day)
  wither   Example sentences     speak
v. shrivel; decay; lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; loss of moisture
  innovation   Example sentences     speak
n. a new method, idea, product; introduction of something new
2026-01-13   (Back to the Day)
  persuasive   Example sentences     speak
a. capable of convincing; having the power to induce action or belief
  detest   Example sentences     speak
v. dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards
  laudable   Example sentences     speak
a. deserving of praise; worthy of high praise
2026-01-12   (Back to the Day)
  subjective   Example sentences     speak
a. occurring or taking place in person's mind rather than external world; unreal
  barter   Example sentences     speak
v. trade goods or services without the exchange of money
2026-01-09   (Back to the Day)
  adapt   Example sentences     speak
v. make fit for; change to suit a new purpose
  astonish   Example sentences     speak
v. surprise or impress someone greatly; shock
2026-01-08   (Back to the Day)
  exalt   Example sentences     speak
v. raise in rank or dignity; praise
  enrich   Example sentences     speak
v. make rich; richen; improve
  durable   Example sentences     speak
a. lasting; able to withstand wear, pressure, or damage; hard wearing; enduring
2026-01-07   (Back to the Day)
  onset   Example sentences     speak
n. beginning or early stages; offensive against enemy
  receptacle   Example sentences     speak
n. container; reservoir; an object or space used to contain something
2025-12-22   (Back to the Day)
  diction   Example sentences     speak
n. choice and use of words in speech or writing
  sieve   Example sentences     speak
n. device to separate larger objects from smaller objects, or to separate solid objects from a liquid; utensil for separating; coarse basket
2025-12-19   (Back to the Day)
  afoot   Example sentences     speak
a. currently in progress; traveling by foot
  mercenary   Example sentences     speak
a. interested in making money; profit oriented; hired for service in foreign army
2025-12-18   (Back to the Day)
  lurid   Example sentences     speak
a. causing shock or horror; gruesome
  oblong   Example sentences     speak
a. having greater length than breadth, especially when rectangular
  astounding   Example sentences     speak
a. surprisingly impressive or notable; shocking
2025-12-17   (Back to the Day)
  hallowed   Example sentences     speak
a. associated with a divine power; made holy; worthy of religious veneration
  safeguard   Example sentences     speak
n. one who, or that which, defends or protects; defense; protection
2025-12-16   (Back to the Day)
  retinue   Example sentences     speak
n. following members; attendants accompanying high-ranking person
  inscrutable   Example sentences     speak
a. impenetrable; not readily understood; mysterious
  aspiration   Example sentences     speak
n. a hope or ambition of achieving something; the action or process of drawing breath
2025-12-15   (Back to the Day)
  incredulous   Example sentences     speak
a. difficult to believe; incredible; skeptical
  facilitate   Example sentences     speak
v. help bring about; make less difficult
2025-12-12   (Back to the Day)
  outcast   Example sentences     speak
a. cast out; degraded; excluded from a society
  convoy   Example sentences     speak
v. accompany for protection, either by sea or land; attend for protection; escort
2025-12-11   (Back to the Day)
  pedestal   Example sentences     speak
n. architectural support or base, as for a column or statue; support or foundation
  violate   Example sentences     speak
v. treat in a violent manner; abuse; do violence to; disturb; interrupt
  liberated   Example sentences     speak
a. freed, especially from traditional ideas in social and sexual matters; of liberate
2025-12-10   (Back to the Day)
  precipitous   Example sentences     speak
a. extremely steep; descending rapidly, or rushing onward
  ballot   Example sentences     speak
n. printed or written ticket used in voting; act of voting; whole number of votes cast at an election
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