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: 2025-05-22
echelonspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. level or rank in an organization, profession, or society; formation of troops, ships
epitaphspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. inscription on tombstone in memory
The sturdy old man, whom he had left so short a time before, was gone, then, and this was all his epitaph.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
Then, with a sudden dart of irony, he wondered if, when their turn came, the same epitaph would be written over him and Zeena.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs; this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of Bulkington.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. The Lee Shore.
eruptspeak speak spelling sentences 
v. explode; burst out; become violently active
Most impressive, so they say--they were lucky--in eruption.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
They knew they were sitting on a volcano, but until that volcano erupted there was nothing they could do.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Enveloped in their shaggy watch coats, and with their heads muffled in woollen comforters, all bedarned and ragged, and their beards stiff with icicles, they seemed an eruption of bears from Labrador.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
Review Words:   Rrecent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2025-05-21   (Back to the Day)
  dismantle   speakExamples  
v. take apart; disassemble; tear down
  disseminate   speakExamples  
v. distribute; spread; scatter like seeds
2025-05-20   (Back to the Day)
  dichotomy   speakExamples  
n. being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
  disarray   speakExamples  
v. throw into disorder; break the array of.
  disgruntled   speakExamples  
a. unhappy; dissatisfied; frustrated
2025-05-19   (Back to the Day)
  deploy   speakExamples  
v. position troops in readiness for combat, as along a front or line; put into use or action
  desecrate   speakExamples  
v. violate with violence, especially to sacred place
2025-05-16   (Back to the Day)
  decelerate   speakExamples  
v. slow down rate of advancement of; decrease speed of
  deflect   speakExamples  
v. turn aside; draw someone's attention away from something
2025-05-15   (Back to the Day)
  contravened   speakExamples  
v. deny the truth of; go against, as of rules and laws
  critique   speakExamples  
n. critical review or commentary, especially one dealing with works of art or literature
  debacle   speakExamples  
n. sudden downfall; complete disaster
2025-05-14   (Back to the Day)
  commiserate   speakExamples  
v. feel or express pity or sympathy for
  conglomeration   speakExamples  
n. a rounded spherical form; a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
2025-05-13   (Back to the Day)
  carcinogen   speakExamples  
n. any substance that produces cancer
  cliche   speakExamples  
n. obvious remark; overused expression or idea
  clique   speakExamples  
n. small exclusive group of friends or associates
2025-05-12   (Back to the Day)
  calligraphy   speakExamples  
n. beautiful writing; excellent penmanship
  camaraderie   speakExamples  
n. good-fellowship; companionship; close friendship in friends or teammates
2025-05-09   (Back to the Day)
  browbeat   speakExamples  
v. bully; intimidate; discourage or frighten with threats
  caldron   speakExamples  
n. large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron
2025-05-08   (Back to the Day)
  balmy   speakExamples  
a. mild and pleasant; extremely foolish
  becalm   speakExamples  
v. keep from motion, or stop progress of; make calm or still
  bovine   speakExamples  
a. dull, slow-moving, and stolid, like an ox; placid and dull
2025-05-07   (Back to the Day)
  avid   speakExamples  
a. greedy; eager for; marked by keen interest and enthusiasm
  avocation   speakExamples  
n. activity taken up in addition to one's regular work or profession, usually for enjoyment
2025-05-06   (Back to the Day)
  abrogate   speakExamples  
a. abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority
  agglomeration   speakExamples  
n. collection; heap; act or process of gathering into a mass
  antagonize   speakExamples  
v. provoke the hostility of; act in opposition to
2025-05-05   (Back to the Day)
  abrasion   speakExamples  
n. the process of scraping or wearing away; scratch; friction
  abrasive   speakExamples  
a. rubbing away; tending to grind down
2025-05-02   (Back to the Day)
  aberrant   speakExamples  
n. abnormal; markedly different from an accepted norm
  abet   speakExamples  
v. aid, usually in doing something wrong; encourage
2025-04-30   (Back to the Day)
  recant   speakExamples  
v. retract a previous statement; sing over again; utter repeatedly in song
  abbreviate   speakExamples  
v. make shorter; reduce to shorter form intended to represent full form, as for word or phrase
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