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: 2025-02-12
crucialspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis; of the greatest importance
Those are the crucial points upon which the case depends.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
This speech was one of the crucial blows of Connie's life.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into "Four legs good, two legs bad" at crucial moments in Snowball's speeches.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
reverespeak speak spelling sentences 
v. worship; regard with feelings of respect or honor
Mr. Peggotty touched me, and whispered with much awe and reverence.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
Satan dropped it there, I take it, intending a scurrilous jest against your reverence.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
While her mother was attacking her father, she tried to restrain her mother, so far as filial reverence would allow.
Anna Karenina(V1) By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
Review Words:   Rrecent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2025-02-11   (Back to the Day)
  unkempt   speakExamples  
a. untidy; dirty; uncared for in appearance
  frustrate   speakExamples  
v. make null; bring to nothing; prevent from taking effect or attaining fulfillment
  inkling   speakExamples  
n. slight hint or indication; slight understanding
2025-02-10   (Back to the Day)
  abstruse   speakExamples  
a. obscure; profound; difficult to understand.
  pertinent   speakExamples  
a. having precise or logical relevance; pertaining or relating
2025-02-07   (Back to the Day)
  forum   speakExamples  
n. place to discuss public concerns; meeting or medium for open discussion
  momentum   speakExamples  
n. product of a body's mass and its velocity; impelling force or strength; impetus
2025-02-06   (Back to the Day)
  adept   speakExamples  
a. expert at; very skilled; having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
  intolerant   speakExamples  
a. not enduring; not able to endure; unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion
  querulous   speakExamples  
a. habitually complaining; expressing complaint or grievance
2025-02-05   (Back to the Day)
  antithesis   speakExamples  
n. a contrast or opposition between two things; direct contrast
  quell   speakExamples  
v. extinguish; put down forcibly; suppress; pacify or quiet
2025-02-04   (Back to the Day)
  compression   speakExamples  
n. applying pressure; encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required
  subside   speakExamples  
v. settle down; sink to a lower level or form depression; wear off or die down
  disquiet   speakExamples  
v. make uneasy or anxious; trouble
2025-02-03   (Back to the Day)
  inclusive   speakExamples  
a. tending to include all; taking a great deal or everything within its scope
  insufferable   speakExamples  
a. incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable
2025-01-31   (Back to the Day)
  reprove   speakExamples  
v. voice or convey disapproval of; rebuke; find fault with
  integral   speakExamples  
a. essential or necessary for completeness; entire
2025-01-30   (Back to the Day)
  dearth   speakExamples  
n. scarcity; shortage of food; famine from failure or loss of crops
  consecrate   speakExamples  
v. appoint to a clerical posts; dedicate to a deity by a vow; render holy by means of religious rites
  tier   speakExamples  
n. a relative position or degree of value in a graded group; one of two or more layers one atop another
2025-01-29   (Back to the Day)
  pacify   speakExamples  
v. ease anger or agitation of; make calm or quiet; end war or violence
  facetious   speakExamples  
a. joking ,often inappropriately; humorous
2025-01-28   (Back to the Day)
  cosmic   speakExamples  
a. pertaining to the universe; vast
  idiom   speakExamples  
n. expression whose meaning differs from meanings of its individual words; distinctive style
  overture   speakExamples  
n. an opening or aperture; recess; introductory section or part, as of a poem
2025-01-27   (Back to the Day)
  stigma   speakExamples  
n. symbol of disgrace; small mark, as scar or birthmark; mark made with red-hot iron
  ravenous   speakExamples  
a. extremely hungry; voracious; eager for prey
2025-01-24   (Back to the Day)
  component   speakExamples  
n. element; ingredient; abstract part of something
  feign   speakExamples  
v. make false appearance of; disguise; conceal; invent or imagine
2025-01-23   (Back to the Day)
  dogmatic   speakExamples  
a. stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proven beliefs; inflexible, rigid
  enhance   speakExamples  
v. make better or more attractive; increase; improve
  enigma   speakExamples  
n. puzzle; a person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand
2025-01-22   (Back to the Day)
  annihilate   speakExamples  
v. destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence
  hovel   speakExamples  
n. small or simply constructed dwelling; small, wretched house
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