11th Grade Words of the Day

This Words for the Day webpage helps grade 11 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 11th-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 11
Specified Day: 2026-06-02
excitablespeak speak spelling sentences 
a. capable of responding to stimuli; easily excited
Mr. Soames was a tall, spare man, of a nervous and excitable temperament.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
He folded his arms and glared at me with his excitable, slanting brown eyes.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
Wildeve was a nervous and excitable man, and the game was beginning to tell upon his temper.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
excruciatespeak speak spelling sentences 
v. torment emotionally or mentally; subject to torture
The pain of moving his eyes was too excruciating to be borne and he groaned.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
These she began to thrust into the image in all directions, with apparently excruciating energy.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
Then he understood that it must be in pain: pain so excruciating that he seemed, mysteriously, to feel it shooting through his own body.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
expungedspeak speak spelling sentences 
v. remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
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Words of the recent 15 days
2026-05-29   (Back to the Day)
  equitation   Example sentences     speak
n. the sport of siting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements
  etched   Example sentences     speak
a. cut or impressed into a surface
2026-05-28   (Back to the Day)
  emphatically   Example sentences     speak
ad. without question and beyond doubt
  enrapture   Example sentences     speak
v. please intensely; fill with great delight or joy
  enunciate   Example sentences     speak
v. speak distinctly; state or set forth precisely or systematically; pronounce; articulate
2026-05-27   (Back to the Day)
  electrify   Example sentences     speak
v. excite suddenly and intensely; charge a conductor with electricity; equip for use with electricity
  embroil   Example sentences     speak
v. force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
2026-05-26   (Back to the Day)
  dragnet   Example sentences     speak
n. a series of actions that are done by the police in order to catch criminals
  echolocation   Example sentences     speak
n. determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it
  egalitarian   Example sentences     speak
n. a person who believes in the equality of all people
2026-05-25   (Back to the Day)
  disingenuous   Example sentences     speak
a. giving a false appearance of frankness; not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
  dolefully   Example sentences     speak
ad. with sadness; in a sorrowful manner
2026-05-22   (Back to the Day)
  depository   Example sentences     speak
n. a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
  disdainfully   Example sentences     speak
ad. without respect; in a disdainful manner; in a proud and domineering manner
2026-05-21   (Back to the Day)
  countercharge   Example sentences     speak
n. a retaliatory charge; a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser
  crusader   Example sentences     speak
n. a warrior who engages in a holy war; a disputant who advocates reform
  defiled   Example sentences     speak
a. morally blemished; stained or impure
2026-05-20   (Back to the Day)
  conspicuously   Example sentences     speak
ad. in a prominent way; in a manner tending to attract attention
  contemplative   Example sentences     speak
a. deeply or seriously thoughtful
2026-05-19   (Back to the Day)
  buttress   Example sentences     speak
v. support physically; prop up; support something or someone by supplying evidence
  claustrophobia   Example sentences     speak
n. abnormal fear of being in narrow or enclosed spaces
  compile   Example sentences     speak
v. put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources
2026-05-18   (Back to the Day)
  blithely   Example sentences     speak
ad. in a joyous manner; in a happy or carefree manner
  bloodcurdling   Example sentences     speak
a. extremely alarming; causing terror or horror
2026-05-15   (Back to the Day)
  bisect   Example sentences     speak
v. cut in half or cut in two
  blabbermouth   Example sentences     speak
n. someone who gossips indiscreetly
2026-05-14   (Back to the Day)
  betroth   Example sentences     speak
v. become engaged to marry; promise to marry
  bevel   Example sentences     speak
n. two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
  bickering   Example sentences     speak
n. a quarrel about petty points
2026-05-13   (Back to the Day)
  besmear   Example sentences     speak
v. spread or daub a surface; smear or cover with a greasy or sticky substance
  bethink   Example sentences     speak
v. cause oneself to consider something; consider or ponder something carefully
2026-05-12   (Back to the Day)
  bedeck   Example sentences     speak
v. dress up or decorate with showy things
  befog   Example sentences     speak
v. make less visible or unclear
  bereave   Example sentences     speak
v. deprive and make desolate, especially by death
2026-05-11   (Back to the Day)
  athirst   Example sentences     speak
a. very eager to get something; extremely desirous
  bailiwick   Example sentences     speak
n. the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction; a branch of knowledge
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