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: 2026-02-06
intervenespeak speak spelling sentences 
v. get involved; come, appear, or lie between two things
She counted the days that must intervene before their invitation could be sent; hopeless of seeing him before.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 53
Allowing ten seconds to intervene, she rose; paused; and then, as if she had heard the last strain die out, offered Mrs. Giles Oliver her hand.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
An intervening elevation of land hid the light.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If.
polarspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. pertaining to one of the poles of the earth; of the poles
Duncan had no other guide than a distant glimmering light, which served, however, the office of a polar star to the lover.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
The third showed the pinnacle of an iceberg piercing a polar winter sky: a muster of northern lights reared their dim lances, close serried, along the horizon.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous fagots were thus bound together that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
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Words of the recent 15 days
2026-02-05   (Back to the Day)
  onslaught   Example sentences     speak
n. assault; a fierce or destructive attack
  benign   Example sentences     speak
a. kindly; favorable; not malignant
  beget   Example sentences     speak
v. produce; give rise to
2026-02-04   (Back to the Day)
  vindication   Example sentences     speak
n. act of vindicating, or state of being vindicated; defense; evidence or statements that justify a claim or belief
  ignominious   Example sentences     speak
a. deserving or bringing disgrace or shame, used of conduct or character
2026-02-03   (Back to the Day)
  abhor   Example sentences     speak
v. fill with horror and loathing; horrify; hate
  famished   Example sentences     speak
a. extremely hungry; exhausted through want of food or drink
  variegated   Example sentences     speak
a. streaked, spotted, or marked with a variety of color; very colorful
2026-02-02   (Back to the Day)
  mimic   Example sentences     speak
v. copy or imitate closely, especially in speech, expression
  perpetuate   Example sentences     speak
v. make something last; preserve from extinction
2026-01-30   (Back to the Day)
  tacit   Example sentences     speak
a. indicated or understood without expressed directly; not speaking; silent
  fortify   Example sentences     speak
v. make strong or stronger; prepare oneself for a military confrontation
2026-01-29   (Back to the Day)
  harangue   Example sentences     speak
n. noisy speech; speech or piece of writing with strong feeling or expression
  lucrative   Example sentences     speak
a. profitable; producing good profit
  bulwark   Example sentences     speak
n. earthwork or other strong defense; person who defends
2026-01-28   (Back to the Day)
  speculate   Example sentences     speak
v. assume to be true without conclusive evidence; engage in buying or selling of a commodity for profit
  indignity   Example sentences     speak
n. offensive or insulting treatment
2026-01-27   (Back to the Day)
  grimace   Example sentences     speak
n. facial distortion to show feeling such as pain, disgust
  preside   Example sentences     speak
v. be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director; direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer
  forage   Example sentences     speak
v. hunt for; search; the act of searching for food
2026-01-26   (Back to the Day)
  stifle   Example sentences     speak
v. interrupt or cut off voice; keep in or hold back; suppress; conceal or hide
  cleave   Example sentences     speak
v. split with or as if with a sharp instrument; pierce or penetrate; remain faithful to
2026-01-23   (Back to the Day)
  pungent   Example sentences     speak
a. stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic
  broadcast   Example sentences     speak
n. message that is transmitted by radio or television; radio or television show
2026-01-22   (Back to the Day)
  overrun   Example sentences     speak
v. run or extend beyond normal or desired limit; overflow
  affable   Example sentences     speak
a. easily approachable; warmly friendly
  burly   Example sentences     speak
a. husky; muscular and heavily built
2026-01-21   (Back to the Day)
  articulate   Example sentences     speak
a. expressing oneself easily in clear and effective language
  despicable   Example sentences     speak
a. fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless
2026-01-20   (Back to the Day)
  batter   Example sentences     speak
v. beat with successive blows; beat repeatedly and with violence
  counterpart   Example sentences     speak
n. duplicate copy; analogue; one that closely resembles another
  solicitous   Example sentences     speak
a. worried or concerned; full of desire; expressing care or concern
2026-01-19   (Back to the Day)
  desist   Example sentences     speak
v. cease to proceed or act; stop; forbear
  prescribe   Example sentences     speak
v. dictate; guide; advise the use of; assert a right; claim
2026-01-16   (Back to the Day)
  assail   Example sentences     speak
v. assault; attack with or as if with violent blows
  blight   Example sentences     speak
v. blast; prevent the growth and fertility of; destroy the happiness of; ruin; frustrate
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