11th Grade Words of the Day

This Words for the Day webpage helps grade 11 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 11th-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 11
Specified Day: 2026-06-22
perpetuityspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. the property of being perpetual, seemingly ceaseless
The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
It could not be that one conscious of such aptitudes for mastery and enjoyment was doomed to a perpetuity of failure; and her mistakes looked easily reparable in the light of her restored self-confidence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
Within myself, I had sustained, from my babyhood, a perpetual conflict with injustice.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
privationspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. hardship; state of extreme poverty
He knows not what I term privation.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
This, however, is not considered a very great privation.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
It was January, midwinter, an awful time to have to face privation.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
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Words of the recent 15 days
2026-06-19   (Back to the Day)
  ovulation   Example sentences     speak
n. the expulsion of an ovum from the ovary, usually midway in the menstrual cycle
  peril   Example sentences     speak
n. danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction
2026-06-18   (Back to the Day)
  overproduction   Example sentences     speak
n. too much production or more than expected
  overrate   Example sentences     speak
v. make too high an estimate of
  overweight   Example sentences     speak
n. the property of excessive fatness
2026-06-17   (Back to the Day)
  overpass   Example sentences     speak
n. bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels
  overpay   Example sentences     speak
v. pay too much; pay in excess of what is due
2026-06-16   (Back to the Day)
  ogle   Example sentences     speak
v. look at amorously; cast glances as in fondness or to attract notice
  oilcloth   Example sentences     speak
n. cloth treated on one side with a drying oil or synthetic resin
  outreach   Example sentences     speak
n. the act of reaching out; the extent or length of reaching out
2026-06-15   (Back to the Day)
  needlework   Example sentences     speak
n. a creation created or assembled by needle and thread; work, such as sewing or embroidery, that is done with a needle
  nonchalantly   Example sentences     speak
ad. in a composed and unconcerned manner
2026-06-12   (Back to the Day)
  merriment   Example sentences     speak
n. activities that are enjoyable or amusing; a gay feeling
  moonbeam   Example sentences     speak
n. a ray of moonlight
2026-06-11   (Back to the Day)
  lackadaisically   Example sentences     speak
ad. in an idle and lackadaisical manner
  leniently   Example sentences     speak
ad. in a permissively lenient manner
  makeup   Example sentences     speak
n. composition; structure; the way in which someone or something is composed
2026-06-10   (Back to the Day)
  knickknack   Example sentences     speak
n. a small inexpensive mass-produced article; miscellaneous curios
  knighthood   Example sentences     speak
n. aristocrats holding the rank of knight
2026-06-09   (Back to the Day)
  incredulously   Example sentences     speak
ad. in a manner indicating disbelief
  indoctrination   Example sentences     speak
n. teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically
  inductee   Example sentences     speak
n. someone who is drafted into military service; a person inducted into an organization or social group
2026-06-08   (Back to the Day)
  incalculable   Example sentences     speak
a. not capable of being computed or enumerated
  inclement   Example sentences     speak
a. stormy; showing no mercy; physically severe
2026-06-05   (Back to the Day)
  horticulture   Example sentences     speak
n. cultivation of plants; the art or practice of garden cultivation and management
  humorist   Example sentences     speak
n. someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way
2026-06-04   (Back to the Day)
  foursome   Example sentences     speak
n. four people considered as a unit; the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
  grotesquely   Example sentences     speak
ad. in a comically or distorted manner
  harebrained   Example sentences     speak
a. very foolish; rash; ill judged
2026-06-03   (Back to the Day)
  expunging   Example sentences     speak
n. deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
  extrapolate   Example sentences     speak
v. estimate the value of; draw from specific cases for more general cases
2026-06-02   (Back to the Day)
  excitable   Example sentences     speak
a. capable of responding to stimuli; easily excited
  excruciate   Example sentences     speak
v. torment emotionally or mentally; subject to torture
  expunged   Example sentences     speak
v. remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
2026-05-29   (Back to the Day)
  equitation   Example sentences     speak
n. the sport of siting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements
  etched   Example sentences     speak
a. cut or impressed into a surface
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