10th Grade Words of the Day

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 Word of the Day for Grade 10
Specified Day: 2024-03-28
impelspeak speak spelling sentences 
v. drive or force onward; drive forward; urge to action through moral pressure
He saw enough in her face to impel him to take her hand and hold it while he said his lingering good night.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXV
It was the certainty of this fact that impelled me to offer the hint.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
It was what I remotely dreaded when I was first impelled to stay away from England.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
stridentspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. loud and harsh; insistent; high-pitched; rough-sounding
Again and again it sounded, the whole air throbbing with it, strident, wild, and menacing.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By A. Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
Her laugh, too, was high, and perhaps a little strident, but there was a lively intelligence in it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
Each stalk served as a perch for a grasshopper, which regaled the passers by through this Egyptian scene with its strident, monotonous note.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
incantationspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. singing or chanting of magic spells; magical formula; verbal charm or spell
Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ONE
So still and subdued and yet somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of reverie lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own invisible self.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
Endeavoring, then, to collect his ideas, he prepared to perform that species of incantation, and those uncouth rites, under which the Indian conjurers are accustomed to conceal their ignorance and impotency.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
Review Words:   Rrecent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2024-03-27   (Back to the Day)
  overt   speakExamples  
a. open to view; not secret or hidden
  escapade   speakExamples  
n. wild and exciting undertaking; adventurous or unconventional act
2024-03-26   (Back to the Day)
  navigate   speakExamples  
v. steer; direct; follow a planned course on, across, or through
  evoke   speakExamples  
v. bring out; arouse; call forth
  regimen   speakExamples  
n. prescribed diet and habits; a systematic plan for therapy; governmental rule or control
2024-03-25   (Back to the Day)
  vaudeville   speakExamples  
n. a variety show with songs and comic acts etc.
  negligible   speakExamples  
a. so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may be easily disregarded
2024-03-22   (Back to the Day)
  condolence   speakExamples  
n. expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.
  refugee   speakExamples  
n. one who flees to shelter, or place of safety
2024-03-21   (Back to the Day)
  colloquial   speakExamples  
a. of informal spoken language or conversation; conversational or chatty
  ambiguity   speakExamples  
n. state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty
  relent   speakExamples  
v. give in; become more compassionate or forgiving; cause to soften in attitude or temper
2024-03-20   (Back to the Day)
  punctilious   speakExamples  
a. marked by precise accordance with details
  asset   speakExamples  
n. properties; advantage; useful or valuable quality
2024-03-19   (Back to the Day)
  cursory   speakExamples  
a. casual; brief or broad; not cautious, nor detailed
  irascible   speakExamples  
a. irritable; easily angered; excited by or arising from anger
  pervade   speakExamples  
v. pass or flow through, as an aperture; permeate; pass or spread through the whole extent of
2024-03-18   (Back to the Day)
  ornate   speakExamples  
a. excessively or elaborately decorated; flashy, showy, or florid in style or manner
  apocryphal   speakExamples  
a. untrue; of questionable authorship or authenticity; erroneous; fictitious
2024-03-15   (Back to the Day)
  discrepancy   speakExamples  
n. lack of consistency; lack of compatibility or similarity between two or more facts
  conclave   speakExamples  
n. a confidential or secret meeting
2024-03-14   (Back to the Day)
  spurn   speakExamples  
v. reject disdainfully or contemptuously; scorn
  assimilate   speakExamples  
v. incorporate and absorb into mind; make similar; cause to resemble
  disparity   speakExamples  
n. difference; condition or fact of being unequal, as in age, rank, or degree
2024-03-13   (Back to the Day)
  overpower   speakExamples  
v. overcome by superior force; overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
  porous   speakExamples  
a. full of pores; able to absorb fluids; full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through
2024-03-12   (Back to the Day)
  dissertation   speakExamples  
n. formal essay; paper written by candidate for doctoral degree at university
  pittance   speakExamples  
n. very small portion or allowance assigned, whether of food or money
  subterfuge   speakExamples  
n. pretense; something intended to misrepresent
2024-03-11   (Back to the Day)
  indelible   speakExamples  
a. impossible to remove, erase, or wash away; permanent
  inertia   speakExamples  
n. property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction
2024-03-08   (Back to the Day)
  incite   speakExamples  
v. arouse to action; motivate; induce to exist
  gingerly   speakExamples  
ad. with great care or delicacy; cautiously
2024-03-07   (Back to the Day)
  inimical   speakExamples  
a. unfriendly; hostile; harmful; detrimental
  luscious   speakExamples  
a. pleasing or sweet to taste or smell
  restive   speakExamples  
a. impatient under restraint or opposition; resisting control; difficult to control
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