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.
The details about the app's word bank are here. We also offer other tools to assist grade 12 students in studying them.
The details about the app's word bank are here. We also offer other tools to assist grade 12 students in studying them.
| Word of the Day for Grade 12 |
Specified Day: 2025-10-08
| imperative |     |
n. having power command or control; critically importance; some duty that is essential and urgent
It became imperative to lance the flying whale, or be content to lose him.
Noirtier cast an appealing look on Valentine, which look was at once so earnest and imperative, that she answered immediately.
Her glance wandered from his face away toward the Gulf, whose sonorous murmur reached her like a loving but imperative entreaty.
| appalling | |
a. causing or fitted to cause dismay or horror; frightful
I thought of Switzerland; it was far different from this desolate and appalling landscape.
Even when the lessons are done, the worst is yet to happen, in the shape of an appalling sum.
Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome yet appalling hideousness.
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2025-10-07 (Back to the Day)
maternal 
Examples
Examples a. motherly; relating to mother or motherhood
dialect Examples
Examples n. vocabulary that is for a specific group of people
contemptuous Examples
Examples a. scornful; expressing contempt; showing a lack of respect
2025-10-06 (Back to the Day)
rebuke Examples
Examples v. scold harshly; criticize severely
morbid Examples
Examples a. caused by disease; pathological or diseased; unhealthy or unwholesome
2025-10-03 (Back to the Day)
radical Examples
Examples a. drastic; extreme; arising from or going to a root or source; basic
wanton Examples
Examples a. unrestrained; willfully malicious; immoral or unchaste
2025-10-02 (Back to the Day)
tolerable Examples
Examples a. capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally.
deity Examples
Examples n. god; divinity; supernatural things
rogue Examples
Examples n. a deceitful and unreliable person; a dishonest or worthless person
2025-09-30 (Back to the Day)
deference Examples
Examples n. willingness to carry out the wishes of others; great respect
satire Examples
Examples n. form of literature in which irony and ridicule are used to attack human vice and folly
vitality Examples
Examples n. energetic style; being able to survive and grow; capacity to live, grow, or develop
2025-09-29 (Back to the Day)
zealous Examples
Examples a. enthusiastic; filled with or motivated by zeal
sundry Examples
Examples a. various; miscellaneous; separate; distinct; diverse
2025-09-26 (Back to the Day)
pilgrimage Examples
Examples n. a journey to a sacred place
continuance Examples
Examples n. an activity without interruption; the period of time during which something continues
2025-09-25 (Back to the Day)
wan Examples
Examples a. having a pale or sickly color; unnaturally pale, as from physical or emotional distress
grotesque Examples
Examples a. fantastic; comically hideous; unnatural in shape or size; abnormal
gratify Examples
Examples v. give pleasure to; satisfy; indulge; make happy
2025-09-24 (Back to the Day)
infernal Examples
Examples a. pertaining to hell; devilish; abominable; awful
irony Examples
Examples n. expression by deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning; witty language used to insult
2025-09-23 (Back to the Day)
expressly Examples
Examples ad. particularly; specifically; in an explicit manner
consul Examples
Examples n. a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country
passive Examples
Examples a. lacking in energy or will; peacefully resistant in response to injustice
2025-09-22 (Back to the Day)
scope Examples
Examples n. range of one's perceptions, thoughts, or actions; extent; bound
organic Examples
Examples a. simple and healthful and close to nature
2025-09-19 (Back to the Day)
resolute Examples
Examples a. firm, unyielding, or determined; having decided purpose
expressive Examples
Examples a. effectively conveying thought or feeling; indicative
2025-09-18 (Back to the Day)
patron Examples
Examples n. a person who gives financial or other support to people or activity; regular customer
usage Examples
Examples n. the act of using; accepted or habitual practice; the customary manner in which a language is spoken or written
personage Examples
Examples n. form, appearance, or belongings of a person; external appearance, stature, figure, air
2025-09-17 (Back to the Day)
allusion Examples
Examples n. indirect reference; symbolical reference or comparison; metaphor
humility Examples
Examples n. quality or condition of being humble; low estimate of one's self; self-abasement
2025-09-16 (Back to the Day)
tumult Examples
Examples n. noise, as made by a crowd; riot or uprising
fidelity Examples
Examples n. faithfulness to obligations, duties, or observances
intolerable Examples
Examples a. incapable of being put up with; unable to be endured
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