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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 Word of the Day for Grade 10
Specified Day: 2025-10-21
discernspeak speak spelling sentences 
v. detect; perceive or recognize something
He must discern thee in thy true character.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
Once or twice she could discern a faint blush; but in general Charlotte wisely did not hear.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
I saw him try both experiments upon a dog, but could not discern any effect from the former.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
arbitraryspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. randomly chosen; determined by chance or impulse, and not by reason or principle
If it is a purely arbitrary one, it may be impossible for us to solve it.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
And should this happen, she had no legal rights, no legal redress, except those same drumhead courts of which Tony had spoken so bitterly, those military courts with their arbitrary powers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
And while their manners were thus the subject of sarcastic observation, the untaught Saxons unwittingly transgressed several of the arbitrary rules established for the regulation of society.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
chivalryspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. knightly skill; courtesy towards women
Southern chivalry protected her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
He was deeply read in books of chivalry and romance.
Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
There you lay in the whirling clouds of dust, all huge and hugely, heedless now of your chivalry.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXIV
Review Words:   Rrecent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2025-10-20   (Back to the Day)
  oblige   speakExamples  
v. force; bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; do a service or favor for
  catastrophe   speakExamples  
n. calamity; disaster; state of extreme ruin and misfortune
2025-10-17   (Back to the Day)
  allegiance   speakExamples  
n. loyalty to a nation, sovereign, or cause; fidelity to any person or thing; devotion
  insight   speakExamples  
n. understanding; grasping the inner nature of things intuitively
2025-10-16   (Back to the Day)
  foster   speakExamples  
v. rear; promote the growth of; help develop
  attribute   speakExamples  
n. essential quality; reputation; honor
  tract   speakExamples  
n. expanse of land or water; system of organs that perform a specialized function; leaflet or pamphlet
2025-10-15   (Back to the Day)
  expedient   speakExamples  
a. suitable; appropriate to a purpose; serving to promote your interest
  posterity   speakExamples  
n. descendants collectively; the race that proceeds from a progenitor; future generations
2025-10-14   (Back to the Day)
  phenomenon   speakExamples  
n. appearance; anything visible, in matter or spirit; extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrence
  execute   speakExamples  
v. put into effect; carry out the legalities of
  tedious   speakExamples  
a. tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; progressing very slowly
2025-10-13   (Back to the Day)
  epoch   speakExamples  
n. particular period of history, especially one considered remarkable
  granite   speakExamples  
n. common, coarse-grained, light-colored, hard igneous rock consisting chiefly of quartz; unyielding endurance
2025-10-10   (Back to the Day)
  mute   speakExamples  
a. refraining from producing speech or vocal sound; unable to speak; expressed without speech; unspoken
  proprietor   speakExamples  
n. one who has legal title to something; owner
2025-10-09   (Back to the Day)
  prior   speakExamples  
a. preceding in the order of time; former; previous
  jurisdiction   speakExamples  
n. authority; right and power to interpret and apply the law
  shepherd   speakExamples  
n. a herder of sheep; someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock
2025-10-08   (Back to the Day)
  obstinate   speakExamples  
a. stubbornly adhering to an attitude or opinion; hard to control or treat
  ghastly   speakExamples  
a. horrible; inspiring shock; extremely unpleasant or bad
2025-10-07   (Back to the Day)
  dismal   speakExamples  
a. causing gloom or depression; dreary; somber; melancholy
  splendor   speakExamples  
n. magnificence; Great light or luster; brilliance; grandeur
  calamity   speakExamples  
n. event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; disaster; misery
2025-10-06   (Back to the Day)
  propriety   speakExamples  
n. fitness; correct conduct; quality of being proper; appropriateness
  occurrence   speakExamples  
n. an event that happens; the action or fact of happening or occurring
2025-10-03   (Back to the Day)
  haughty   speakExamples  
a. high; lofty; bold; arrogant; overbearing
  acquire   speakExamples  
v. gain through experience or effort; gain possession of; locate with tracking system
2025-10-02   (Back to the Day)
  vicinity   speakExamples  
n. state of being near in space or relationship; proximity
  fertile   speakExamples  
a. rich; fruitful; inventive; creative; intellectually productive
  conservative   speakExamples  
a. favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change
2025-09-30   (Back to the Day)
  decree   speakExamples  
n. order from one having authority; decision, order, or sentence by court
  ascertain   speakExamples  
v. find out for certain; discover with certainty; make sure of
  theme   speakExamples  
n. subject of conversation or discussion; topic; essay
2025-09-29   (Back to the Day)
  barren   speakExamples  
a. desolate; fruitless and unproductive; lacking
  accord   speakExamples  
n. settlement or compromise of conflicting opinions; written agreement between two states
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