12th Grade Words of the Day

This Words for the Day webpage helps grade 12 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 12th-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 12
Specified Day: 2026-02-17
hewspeak speak spelling sentences 
v. cut with an ax; fell with a sharp instrument; form or shape with a sharp instrument; cut
Some of them simply dreads those iron men, as they call them, those machines for hewing the coal, where men always did it before.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
reputablespeak speak spelling sentences 
a. having a good reputation; honorable
In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
Avoiding the Blue Boar, I put up at an inn of minor reputation down the town, and ordered some dinner.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LII
It is not a fortunate discovery, and is not likely ever to enrich me in reputation, station, fortune, anything.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIV
mendicantspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. beggar; religious friar forbidden to own personal property who begs for living
Review Words:   Recent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2026-02-16   (Back to the Day)
  deft   Example sentences     speak
a. quick and skillful; neat in action or performance
  complicity   Example sentences     speak
n. participation; involvement as partner or accomplice, especially in crime or other wrongdoing
2026-02-13   (Back to the Day)
  hysteria   Example sentences     speak
n. behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic; mental disorder
  dictum   Example sentences     speak
n. a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source
2026-02-12   (Back to the Day)
  crucial   Example sentences     speak
a. of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis; of the greatest importance
  revere   Example sentences     speak
v. worship; regard with feelings of respect or honor
  ultimatum   Example sentences     speak
n. last offer; final statement of terms made by one party to another
2026-02-11   (Back to the Day)
  frustrate   Example sentences     speak
v. make null; bring to nothing; prevent from taking effect or attaining fulfillment
  inkling   Example sentences     speak
n. slight hint or indication; slight understanding
2026-02-10   (Back to the Day)
  abstruse   Example sentences     speak
a. obscure; profound; difficult to understand.
  pertinent   Example sentences     speak
a. having precise or logical relevance; pertaining or relating
  unkempt   Example sentences     speak
a. untidy; dirty; uncared for in appearance
2026-02-09   (Back to the Day)
  forum   Example sentences     speak
n. place to discuss public concerns; meeting or medium for open discussion
  momentum   Example sentences     speak
n. product of a body's mass and its velocity; impelling force or strength; impetus
2026-02-06   (Back to the Day)
  intolerant   Example sentences     speak
a. not enduring; not able to endure; unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion
  querulous   Example sentences     speak
a. habitually complaining; expressing complaint or grievance
2026-02-05   (Back to the Day)
  antithesis   Example sentences     speak
n. a contrast or opposition between two things; direct contrast
  quell   Example sentences     speak
v. extinguish; put down forcibly; suppress; pacify or quiet
  adept   Example sentences     speak
a. expert at; very skilled; having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
2026-02-04   (Back to the Day)
  subside   Example sentences     speak
v. settle down; sink to a lower level or form depression; wear off or die down
  disquiet   Example sentences     speak
v. make uneasy or anxious; trouble
2026-02-03   (Back to the Day)
  inclusive   Example sentences     speak
a. tending to include all; taking a great deal or everything within its scope
  insufferable   Example sentences     speak
a. incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable
  compression   Example sentences     speak
n. applying pressure; encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required
2026-02-02   (Back to the Day)
  reprove   Example sentences     speak
v. voice or convey disapproval of; rebuke; find fault with
  integral   Example sentences     speak
a. essential or necessary for completeness; entire
2026-01-30   (Back to the Day)
  consecrate   Example sentences     speak
v. appoint to a clerical posts; dedicate to a deity by a vow; render holy by means of religious rites
  tier   Example sentences     speak
n. a relative position or degree of value in a graded group; one of two or more layers one atop another
2026-01-29   (Back to the Day)
  pacify   Example sentences     speak
v. ease anger or agitation of; make calm or quiet; end war or violence
  facetious   Example sentences     speak
a. joking ,often inappropriately; humorous
  dearth   Example sentences     speak
n. scarcity; shortage of food; famine from failure or loss of crops
2026-01-28   (Back to the Day)
  idiom   Example sentences     speak
n. expression whose meaning differs from meanings of its individual words; distinctive style
  overture   Example sentences     speak
n. an opening or aperture; recess; introductory section or part, as of a poem
2026-01-27   (Back to the Day)
  stigma   Example sentences     speak
n. symbol of disgrace; small mark, as scar or birthmark; mark made with red-hot iron
  ravenous   Example sentences     speak
a. extremely hungry; voracious; eager for prey
  cosmic   Example sentences     speak
a. pertaining to the universe; vast
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Great is the truth.

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Let there be light.