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: 2025-05-20
buttressspeak speak spelling sentences 
v. support physically; prop up; support something or someone by supplying evidence
I think I was glad to know it; I think I was glad to have my better impulses thus buttressed and guarded by the terrors of the scaffold.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
The access to the upper apartments in the tower which consist in all of four stories, is given by stairs which are carried up through the external buttresses.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
claustrophobiaspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. abnormal fear of being in narrow or enclosed spaces
compilespeak speak spelling sentences 
v. put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources
Nor are the most conscientious compilations of Natural History for the benefit of the young and tender, free from the same heinousness of mistake.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
'I am not a bad compiler, Copperfield,' said Traddles, preserving the same air of cheerful confidence in all he said, 'but I have no invention at all; not a particle.'
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
Review Words:   Rrecent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
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
2025-04-28   (Back to the Day)
  meddlesome   speakExamples  
a. inclined to interfere in other people's business; intrusive in offensive manner
  oriole   speakExamples  
n. mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black
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