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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 Word of the Day for Grade 12
Specified Day: 2025-04-30
contentiousspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. quarrelsome; disagreeable; marked by heated arguments or controversy
heirloomspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. something that has been in a family for generations
Review Words:   Rrecent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2025-04-29   (Back to the Day)
  aphorism   speakExamples  
n. definition or concise statement of principle; tersely phrased statement of truth or opinion
  delineate   speakExamples  
v. portray; depict; draw or trace outline of; sketch out
  venerate   speakExamples  
v. treat with great respect and deference; consider hallowed or be in awe of
2025-04-28   (Back to the Day)
  rhapsody   speakExamples  
n. an epic poem adapted for recitation
  quandary   speakExamples  
n. dilemma; state of uncertainty or perplexity
2025-04-25   (Back to the Day)
  surreptitious   speakExamples  
a. secret; done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently
  optics   speakExamples  
n. the branch of physics that studies the physical properties of ligh; optical properties
2025-04-24   (Back to the Day)
  bureaucracy   speakExamples  
n. over regulated administrative system
  qualm   speakExamples  
n. sudden feeling of sickness or faintness; sudden attack of illness
  liberalism   speakExamples  
n. a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution
2025-04-23   (Back to the Day)
  laud   speakExamples  
v. give praise to; glorify; celebrate or honor
  curtail   speakExamples  
v. cut short or reduce; cut off end or tail, or any part
2025-04-22   (Back to the Day)
  expedite   speakExamples  
v. process fast and efficiently; execute quickly and efficiently
  scrutinize   speakExamples  
v. examine closely and critically
  remittance   speakExamples  
n. transmitting money, bills, especially to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation
2025-04-21   (Back to the Day)
  flail   speakExamples  
v. thresh about; give a thrashing to; beat hard
  duct   speakExamples  
n. a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; an enclosed conduit for a fluid
2025-04-18   (Back to the Day)
  farcical   speakExamples  
a. broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
  tangent   speakExamples  
n. ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
2025-04-17   (Back to the Day)
  bogus   speakExamples  
a. counterfeit or fake; not authentic; not genuine
  hoax   speakExamples  
n. act intended to deceive or trick; practical joke
  scrimmage   speakExamples  
n. a noisy riotous fight; a confused struggle
2025-04-16   (Back to the Day)
  charlatan   speakExamples  
n. quack; one who pretends to knowledge, skill, or importance
  reinstate   speakExamples  
v. place again in possession, or in a former state; restore to a state from which one had been removed
2025-04-15   (Back to the Day)
  impeach   speakExamples  
v. make an accusation against; challenge or discredit the credibility of
  daunt   speakExamples  
v. frighten; abate the courage of; discourage
  glaze   speakExamples  
n. thin smooth shiny coating; glassy film, as one over the eyes
2025-04-14   (Back to the Day)
  glib   speakExamples  
a. performed with a natural or offhand ease
  whet   speakExamples  
v. sharpen, as knife; make more keen; stimulate
2025-04-11   (Back to the Day)
  abdicate   speakExamples  
v. give up, renounce, abandon, lay down, or withdraw from, as a right or claim
  disillusion   speakExamples  
n. a freeing or a being freed from illusion or conviction
2025-04-10   (Back to the Day)
  grandiose   speakExamples  
a. impressive from inherent grandeur; large and impressive, in size, scope or extent
  choleric   speakExamples  
a. hot-tempered; easily angered; bad-tempered; expressing anger
  recondite   speakExamples  
a. difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
2025-04-09   (Back to the Day)
  linear   speakExamples  
a. having form of a line; straight; consisting of lines; lineal
  broach   speakExamples  
v. introduce; bring up for discussion or debate; announce
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