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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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
 Word of the Day for Grade 11
Specified Day: 2026-05-08
assertivespeak speak spelling sentences 
a. positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory
Master Heathcliff, much irritated, asserted her relation was false.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Her body asserted itself with a restless movement of her knee, and she stood up.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
It asserted its own tranquillity, which seemed a pledge of equal quiet to its former inhabitant.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
assessspeak speak spelling sentences 
v. estimate value; judge worth of something
The extra tax assessment and the danger of losing Tara were matters Scarlett had to know about--and right away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
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Words of the recent 15 days
2026-05-07   (Back to the Day)
  alliteration   Example sentences     speak
n. repetition of beginning sound in poetry
  amalgam   Example sentences     speak
n. a combination or blend of diverse things; an alloy of mercury with another metal, usually silver, used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth
  aquaplane   Example sentences     speak
n. a board that is pulled by a speedboat as a person stands on it and skims over the top of the water
2026-05-06   (Back to the Day)
  affability   Example sentences     speak
n. a disposition to be friendly and approachable, easy to talk to
  alienable   Example sentences     speak
a. transferable to another owner; able to be transferred to new ownership
2026-05-05   (Back to the Day)
  accentuate   Example sentences     speak
v. emphasize; stress; pronounce with a stress or accent; mark with an accent
  aegis   Example sentences     speak
n. kindly endorsement and guidance; armor plate that protects the chest
  aeronautics   Example sentences     speak
n. the theory and practice of navigation through air or space
2026-05-04   (Back to the Day)
  cryptic   Example sentences     speak
a. having hidden meaning; mystifying; using code or cipher
  aboveboard   Example sentences     speak
a. without concealment or deception; honest
2026-04-30   (Back to the Day)
  rubble   Example sentences     speak
n. broken fragments; irregular pieces of rock
  wheedle   Example sentences     speak
v. cajole; coax; deceive by flattery
  interloper   Example sentences     speak
n. intruder; one that interferes with affairs of others, often for selfish reasons
2026-04-29   (Back to the Day)
  underrate   Example sentences     speak
v. make too low an estimate of
  overdo   Example sentences     speak
v. do something to an excessive degree
2026-04-28   (Back to the Day)
  oriole   Example sentences     speak
n. mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black
  importune   Example sentences     speak
v. beg persistently; ask for urgently or repeatedly; annoy
  stipulate   Example sentences     speak
v. specify or arrange in agreement; express demand in agreement; promise in agreement
2026-04-27   (Back to the Day)
  disconcert   Example sentences     speak
v. confuse; frustrate by throwing into disorder; embarrass
  meddlesome   Example sentences     speak
a. inclined to interfere in other people's business; intrusive in offensive manner
2026-04-24   (Back to the Day)
  intermittently   Example sentences     speak
ad. in an intermittent manner
  agape   Example sentences     speak
n. a religious meal shared as a sign of love and fellowship; selfless love of one person for another without sexual implications
2026-04-23   (Back to the Day)
  cocoon   Example sentences     speak
n. silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs
  transitive   Example sentences     speak
n. a verb that requires an object in order to be grammatical
  unforgettable   Example sentences     speak
a. impossible to forget; very memorable
2026-04-22   (Back to the Day)
  bauble   Example sentences     speak
n. small, showy ornament of little value; child's plaything or toy
  cull   Example sentences     speak
v. pick out from others; weed out; remove rejected members or parts from
2026-04-21   (Back to the Day)
  squeamish   Example sentences     speak
a. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
  adolescent   Example sentences     speak
n. a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity;
  bombast   Example sentences     speak
n. pompous or pretentious talk or writing
2026-04-20   (Back to the Day)
  dilettante   Example sentences     speak
a. showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish
  procrastination   Example sentences     speak
n. putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time; slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it
2026-04-17   (Back to the Day)
  lifelike   Example sentences     speak
a. evoking lifelike images within the mind; free from artificiality
  expatiate   Example sentences     speak
v. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
2026-04-16   (Back to the Day)
  libation   Example sentences     speak
n. a serving of wine poured out in honor of a deity; a serving of an alcoholic beverage
  flue   Example sentences     speak
n. flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor; organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip
  subvert   Example sentences     speak
v. cause the downfall of; destroy property or hinder normal operations; corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
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