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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Animal Farm by George Orwell
 Word of the Day for Grade 10
Specified Day: 2026-03-23
vaudevillespeak speak spelling sentences 
n. a variety show with songs and comic acts etc.
Even Raymie lost his simple faith, and tried to show that he could do a vaudeville shuffle.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
This altogether admirable tradition rules the vaudeville stage, facetious illustrators, and syndicated newspaper humor, but out of actual life it passed forty years ago.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
negligiblespeak speak spelling sentences 
a. so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may be easily disregarded
An error I readily forgive, but wilful negligence or forgetfulness, never.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 46. Unlimited Credit.
St. Clare had often thought the same thing himself; but he answered, negligently.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Rhett Butler lounged in the shadows, his long legs in their elegant boots crossed negligently, his dark face an unreadable blank.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
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Words of the recent 15 days
2026-03-20   (Back to the Day)
  condolence   Example sentences     speak
n. expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.
  refugee   Example sentences     speak
n. one who flees to shelter, or place of safety
2026-03-19   (Back to the Day)
  colloquial   Example sentences     speak
a. of informal spoken language or conversation; conversational or chatty
  ambiguity   Example sentences     speak
n. state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty
  relent   Example sentences     speak
v. give in; become more compassionate or forgiving; cause to soften in attitude or temper
2026-03-18   (Back to the Day)
  punctilious   Example sentences     speak
a. marked by precise accordance with details
  asset   Example sentences     speak
n. properties; advantage; useful or valuable quality
2026-03-17   (Back to the Day)
  cursory   Example sentences     speak
a. casual; brief or broad; not cautious, nor detailed
  irascible   Example sentences     speak
a. irritable; easily angered; excited by or arising from anger
  pervade   Example sentences     speak
v. pass or flow through, as an aperture; permeate; pass or spread through the whole extent of
2026-03-16   (Back to the Day)
  ornate   Example sentences     speak
a. excessively or elaborately decorated; flashy, showy, or florid in style or manner
  apocryphal   Example sentences     speak
a. untrue; of questionable authorship or authenticity; erroneous; fictitious
2026-03-13   (Back to the Day)
  discrepancy   Example sentences     speak
n. lack of consistency; lack of compatibility or similarity between two or more facts
  conclave   Example sentences     speak
n. a confidential or secret meeting
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
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