12th Grade Words of the Day

This Words for the Day webpage helps grade 12 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 12th-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 12
Specified Day: 2026-02-06
intolerantspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. not enduring; not able to endure; unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion
Especially she is generally intolerant of emotion, when she does not fully comprehend the why and wherefore.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
It was not a brutal countenance, but it was prim, hard, and stern, with a firm-set, thin-lipped mouth, and a coldly intolerant eye.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By A. Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
It was almost intolerable to be borne.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
querulousspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. habitually complaining; expressing complaint or grievance
Of a sudden another broke out in a querulous way like a man who has mislaid his hat.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Phelps was still weak after his long illness, and his misfortune made him querulous and nervous.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
Nothing was stirring except a brindled, grey cat, which crept from the ashes, and saluted me with a querulous mew.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
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Words of the recent 15 days
2026-02-05   (Back to the Day)
  antithesis   Example sentences     speak
n. a contrast or opposition between two things; direct contrast
  quell   Example sentences     speak
v. extinguish; put down forcibly; suppress; pacify or quiet
  adept   Example sentences     speak
a. expert at; very skilled; having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
2026-02-04   (Back to the Day)
  subside   Example sentences     speak
v. settle down; sink to a lower level or form depression; wear off or die down
  disquiet   Example sentences     speak
v. make uneasy or anxious; trouble
2026-02-03   (Back to the Day)
  inclusive   Example sentences     speak
a. tending to include all; taking a great deal or everything within its scope
  insufferable   Example sentences     speak
a. incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable
  compression   Example sentences     speak
n. applying pressure; encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required
2026-02-02   (Back to the Day)
  reprove   Example sentences     speak
v. voice or convey disapproval of; rebuke; find fault with
  integral   Example sentences     speak
a. essential or necessary for completeness; entire
2026-01-30   (Back to the Day)
  consecrate   Example sentences     speak
v. appoint to a clerical posts; dedicate to a deity by a vow; render holy by means of religious rites
  tier   Example sentences     speak
n. a relative position or degree of value in a graded group; one of two or more layers one atop another
2026-01-29   (Back to the Day)
  pacify   Example sentences     speak
v. ease anger or agitation of; make calm or quiet; end war or violence
  facetious   Example sentences     speak
a. joking ,often inappropriately; humorous
  dearth   Example sentences     speak
n. scarcity; shortage of food; famine from failure or loss of crops
2026-01-28   (Back to the Day)
  idiom   Example sentences     speak
n. expression whose meaning differs from meanings of its individual words; distinctive style
  overture   Example sentences     speak
n. an opening or aperture; recess; introductory section or part, as of a poem
2026-01-27   (Back to the Day)
  stigma   Example sentences     speak
n. symbol of disgrace; small mark, as scar or birthmark; mark made with red-hot iron
  ravenous   Example sentences     speak
a. extremely hungry; voracious; eager for prey
  cosmic   Example sentences     speak
a. pertaining to the universe; vast
2026-01-26   (Back to the Day)
  component   Example sentences     speak
n. element; ingredient; abstract part of something
  feign   Example sentences     speak
v. make false appearance of; disguise; conceal; invent or imagine
2026-01-23   (Back to the Day)
  enhance   Example sentences     speak
v. make better or more attractive; increase; improve
  enigma   Example sentences     speak
n. puzzle; a person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand
2026-01-22   (Back to the Day)
  annihilate   Example sentences     speak
v. destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence
  hovel   Example sentences     speak
n. small or simply constructed dwelling; small, wretched house
  dogmatic   Example sentences     speak
a. stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proven beliefs; inflexible, rigid
2026-01-21   (Back to the Day)
  obscene   Example sentences     speak
n. offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty; repulsive; disgusting
  equivocal   Example sentences     speak
a. open to two or more interpretations and often intended to mislead
2026-01-20   (Back to the Day)
  portly   Example sentences     speak
a. inoffensive expression of fat; stout
  revert   Example sentences     speak
v. return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief; backslide; turn back to
  demure   Example sentences     speak
a. modest and reserved in manner or behavior
2026-01-19   (Back to the Day)
  somber   Example sentences     speak
a. gloomy; depressing or grave; dull or dark in color
  feasible   Example sentences     speak
a. capable of being accomplished or brought about
2026-01-16   (Back to the Day)
  medley   Example sentences     speak
n. mixture; musical composition consisting of a series of pieces
  evasion   Example sentences     speak
n. the deliberate act of failing to pay money; the act of physically escaping from something by some adroit maneuver
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