10th Grade Words of the Day

This Words for the Day webpage helps grade 10 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 10th-grade students to get words and their meanings, examples, and context sources.

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 Word of the Day for Grade 10
Specified Day: 2025-05-08
balmyspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. mild and pleasant; extremely foolish
A young man, very pale and worn, was lying upon a sofa near the open window, through which came the rich scent of the garden and the balmy summer air.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind the hills across the Flint River, the warmth of the April day was ebbing into a faint but balmy chill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
A balmy, soft warmth poured into the room, heavy with velvety smells, redolent of many blossoms, of newly fledged trees and of the moist, freshly turned red earth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
becalmspeak speak spelling sentences 
v. keep from motion, or stop progress of; make calm or still
The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
bovinespeak speak spelling sentences 
a. dull, slow-moving, and stolid, like an ox; placid and dull
Carol tried to stare them down but in face of the impishness of the boys and the bovine gaping of the men, she was embarrassed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
Review Words:   Rrecent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2025-05-07   (Back to the Day)
  avid   speakExamples  
a. greedy; eager for; marked by keen interest and enthusiasm
  avocation   speakExamples  
n. activity taken up in addition to one's regular work or profession, usually for enjoyment
2025-05-06   (Back to the Day)
  abrogate   speakExamples  
a. abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority
  agglomeration   speakExamples  
n. collection; heap; act or process of gathering into a mass
  antagonize   speakExamples  
v. provoke the hostility of; act in opposition to
2025-05-05   (Back to the Day)
  abrasion   speakExamples  
n. the process of scraping or wearing away; scratch; friction
  abrasive   speakExamples  
a. rubbing away; tending to grind down
2025-05-02   (Back to the Day)
  aberrant   speakExamples  
n. abnormal; markedly different from an accepted norm
  abet   speakExamples  
v. aid, usually in doing something wrong; encourage
2025-04-30   (Back to the Day)
  recant   speakExamples  
v. retract a previous statement; sing over again; utter repeatedly in song
  abbreviate   speakExamples  
v. make shorter; reduce to shorter form intended to represent full form, as for word or phrase
2025-04-29   (Back to the Day)
  belittle   speakExamples  
v. disparage or depreciate; put down
  exemplify   speakExamples  
v. serve as an example of; embody
  appliance   speakExamples  
n. durable goods for home or office use; device or instrument for household use
2025-04-28   (Back to the Day)
  allot   speakExamples  
v. parcel out in parts or portions; distribute to each individual concerned; assign as a share or lot
  barrage   speakExamples  
n. artificial obstruction; heavy curtain of artillery fire; rapid, concentrated discharge of missiles
2025-04-25   (Back to the Day)
  begrudge   speakExamples  
v. resent; give or expend with reluctance; be envious of
  invert   speakExamples  
v. turn upside down or inside out; reverse the position, order, or condition of
2025-04-24   (Back to the Day)
  fend   speakExamples  
v. ward off; make an effort to resist; keep off; prevent from entering
  rowdy   speakExamples  
n. rough, disorderly person; boisterous person
  trident   speakExamples  
n. a spear with three prongs
2025-04-23   (Back to the Day)
  leaflet   speakExamples  
n. small leaf; leaf like organ or part
  demean   speakExamples  
v. degrade; debase, as in dignity or social standing
2025-04-22   (Back to the Day)
  prospector   speakExamples  
n. someone who explores an area for mineral deposits
  overshadow   speakExamples  
v. throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; obscure; cover with a superior influence
  consensus   speakExamples  
n. general agreement or accord; opinion reached by a group as a whole
2025-04-21   (Back to the Day)
  orchid   speakExamples  
n. plants usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors
  parsimonious   speakExamples  
a. excessively unwilling to spend; excessively sparing or frugal
2025-04-18   (Back to the Day)
  inaugurate   speakExamples  
v. start; initiate; induct into office by formal ceremony
  pseudonym   speakExamples  
n. pen name; fictitious name used when someone performs a particular social role
2025-04-17   (Back to the Day)
  tarnish   speakExamples  
v. make dirty or spotty; stain; dull the luster of; discolor, especially by exposure to air or dirt
  outstrip   speakExamples  
v. exceed or surpass; leave behind
  inscribe   speakExamples  
v. write or engrave; mark down as something to be read; imprint; assign or address to
2025-04-16   (Back to the Day)
  migrant   speakExamples  
a. habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work; wandering
  succinct   speakExamples  
a. brief or compact; by clear, precise expression in few words
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