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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 Word of the Day for Grade 11
Specified Day: 2025-05-21
conspicuouslyspeak speak spelling sentences 
ad. in a prominent way; in a manner tending to attract attention
She wore a muslin dress, conspicuously white, and a stiff little veil coming to her shoulders.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
This puerile feature in a nature which was conspicuously manly had often given rise to comment and conjecture.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
Before another month was by, all the working members of his family had union cards, and wore their union buttons conspicuously and with pride.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
contemplativespeak speak spelling sentences 
a. deeply or seriously thoughtful
Her ladyship lapsed into contemplative silence, soothed by the brandy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
For to-day he felt that he had earned opportunities for contemplative repose.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
But here he was interrupted by his fair physician, a smile which she could scarce suppress dimpling for an instant a face, whose general expression was that of contemplative melancholy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Review Words:   Rrecent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2025-05-20   (Back to the Day)
  buttress   speakExamples  
v. support physically; prop up; support something or someone by supplying evidence
  claustrophobia   speakExamples  
n. abnormal fear of being in narrow or enclosed spaces
  compile   speakExamples  
v. put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources
2025-05-19   (Back to the Day)
  blithely   speakExamples  
ad. in a joyous manner; in a happy or carefree manner
  bloodcurdling   speakExamples  
a. extremely alarming; causing terror or horror
2025-05-16   (Back to the Day)
  bisect   speakExamples  
v. cut in half or cut in two
  blabbermouth   speakExamples  
n. someone who gossips indiscreetly
2025-05-15   (Back to the Day)
  betroth   speakExamples  
v. become engaged to marry; promise to marry
  bevel   speakExamples  
n. two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
  bickering   speakExamples  
n. a quarrel about petty points
2025-05-14   (Back to the Day)
  besmear   speakExamples  
v. spread or daub a surface; smear or cover with a greasy or sticky substance
  bethink   speakExamples  
v. cause oneself to consider something; consider or ponder something carefully
2025-05-13   (Back to the Day)
  bedeck   speakExamples  
v. dress up or decorate with showy things
  befog   speakExamples  
v. make less visible or unclear
  bereave   speakExamples  
v. deprive and make desolate, especially by death
2025-05-12   (Back to the Day)
  athirst   speakExamples  
a. very eager to get something; extremely desirous
  bailiwick   speakExamples  
n. the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction; a branch of knowledge
2025-05-09   (Back to the Day)
  assertive   speakExamples  
a. positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory
  assess   speakExamples  
v. estimate value; judge worth of something
2025-05-08   (Back to the Day)
  alliteration   speakExamples  
n. repetition of beginning sound in poetry
  amalgam   speakExamples  
n. a combination or blend of diverse things; an alloy of mercury with another metal, usually silver, used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth
  aquaplane   speakExamples  
n. a board that is pulled by a speedboat as a person stands on it and skims over the top of the water
2025-05-07   (Back to the Day)
  affability   speakExamples  
n. a disposition to be friendly and approachable, easy to talk to
  alienable   speakExamples  
a. transferable to another owner; able to be transferred to new ownership
2025-05-06   (Back to the Day)
  accentuate   speakExamples  
v. emphasize; stress; pronounce with a stress or accent; mark with an accent
  aegis   speakExamples  
n. kindly endorsement and guidance; armor plate that protects the chest
  aeronautics   speakExamples  
n. the theory and practice of navigation through air or space
2025-05-05   (Back to the Day)
  cryptic   speakExamples  
a. having hidden meaning; mystifying; using code or cipher
  aboveboard   speakExamples  
a. without concealment or deception; honest
2025-05-02   (Back to the Day)
  wheedle   speakExamples  
v. cajole; coax; deceive by flattery
  interloper   speakExamples  
n. intruder; one that interferes with affairs of others, often for selfish reasons
2025-04-30   (Back to the Day)
  overdo   speakExamples  
v. do something to an excessive degree
  rubble   speakExamples  
n. broken fragments; irregular pieces of rock
2025-04-29   (Back to the Day)
  importune   speakExamples  
v. beg persistently; ask for urgently or repeatedly; annoy
  stipulate   speakExamples  
v. specify or arrange in agreement; express demand in agreement; promise in agreement
  underrate   speakExamples  
v. make too low an estimate of
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