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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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
 Word of the Day for Grade 10
Specified Day: 2026-03-13
discrepancyspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. lack of consistency; lack of compatibility or similarity between two or more facts
The discrepancy was enormous and appalling.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
It may be inseparable from the discrepancy in their years.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
The discrepancy consists, Mrs Helmer, in the fact that your father signed this bond three days after his death.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
conclavespeak speak spelling sentences 
n. a confidential or secret meeting
There was a family conclave, the coachman heard of it and leaving his own family went West, and has never returned.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
Answer me not," said the Templar, "by urging the difference of our creeds; within our secret conclaves we hold these nursery tales in derision.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
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Words of the recent 15 days
2026-03-12   (Back to the Day)
  spurn   Example sentences     speak
v. reject disdainfully or contemptuously; scorn
  assimilate   Example sentences     speak
v. incorporate and absorb into mind; make similar; cause to resemble
  disparity   Example sentences     speak
n. difference; condition or fact of being unequal, as in age, rank, or degree
2026-03-11   (Back to the Day)
  overpower   Example sentences     speak
v. overcome by superior force; overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
  porous   Example sentences     speak
a. full of pores; able to absorb fluids; full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through
2026-03-10   (Back to the Day)
  dissertation   Example sentences     speak
n. formal essay; paper written by candidate for doctoral degree at university
  pittance   Example sentences     speak
n. very small portion or allowance assigned, whether of food or money
  subterfuge   Example sentences     speak
n. pretense; something intended to misrepresent
2026-03-09   (Back to the Day)
  indelible   Example sentences     speak
a. impossible to remove, erase, or wash away; permanent
  inertia   Example sentences     speak
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
2026-03-06   (Back to the Day)
  incite   Example sentences     speak
v. arouse to action; motivate; induce to exist
  gingerly   Example sentences     speak
ad. with great care or delicacy; cautiously
2026-03-05   (Back to the Day)
  inimical   Example sentences     speak
a. unfriendly; hostile; harmful; detrimental
  luscious   Example sentences     speak
a. pleasing or sweet to taste or smell
  restive   Example sentences     speak
a. impatient under restraint or opposition; resisting control; difficult to control
2026-03-04   (Back to the Day)
  condensation   Example sentences     speak
n. compression; the conversion of a vapor or gas to a liquid
  malevolent   Example sentences     speak
a. having or exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to others; malicious
2026-03-03   (Back to the Day)
  pivot   Example sentences     speak
n. the central point, pin, or shaft on which a mechanism turns or oscillates; axis; center
  peruse   Example sentences     speak
v. read or examine, typically with great care
  landmark   Example sentences     speak
n. the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape; a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land
2026-03-02   (Back to the Day)
  ordain   Example sentences     speak
v. decree or command; grant holy orders; predestine
  haphazard   Example sentences     speak
a. not thorough, constant or consistent; by chance
2026-02-27   (Back to the Day)
  surveillance   Example sentences     speak
n. watching; inspection; close observation of a person or group; supervision
  accede   Example sentences     speak
v. agree; give consent, often at insistence of another; concede
2026-02-26   (Back to the Day)
  ungainly   Example sentences     speak
a. awkward; lacking grace in movement or posture
  commemorate   Example sentences     speak
v. serve as a memorial to; honor the memory of with a ceremony
  bequeath   Example sentences     speak
v. leave to someone by a will; hand down
2026-02-25   (Back to the Day)
  chaotic   Example sentences     speak
a. in utter disorder; lacking visible order or organization
  atheist   Example sentences     speak
n. nonbeliever; one who denies the existence of god
2026-02-24   (Back to the Day)
  irreconcilable   Example sentences     speak
a. incompatible; not able to be resolved
  insuperable   Example sentences     speak
a. incapable of being excelled; unbeatable
  succumb   Example sentences     speak
v. submit to an overpowering force; yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in
2026-02-23   (Back to the Day)
  jubilant   Example sentences     speak
a. happy; merry; joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
  recluse   Example sentences     speak
n. one who lives in solitude; withdrawn from the world; reclusive
2026-02-20   (Back to the Day)
  burrow   Example sentences     speak
n. tunnel; hole in the ground made by an animal for shelter; dig; move through by or as by digging
  gnarled   Example sentences     speak
a. twisted; knotty; made rough by age or hard work
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