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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 Word of the Day for Grade 12
Specified Day: 2026-03-15

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Every weekend, the first day of each month, winter break (Dec 23 to Jan 6), and summer (part of July and all of August) are word-free days.
Today has no new words, but you can review the recent ones from 2026-03-13.

skepticalspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. marked by or given to doubt; questioning
silhouettespeak speak spelling sentences 
n. a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color; an outline of a solid object, as cast by its shadow
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Words of the recent 15 days
2026-03-13   (Back to the Day)
  skeptical   Example sentences     speak
a. marked by or given to doubt; questioning
  silhouette   Example sentences     speak
n. a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color; an outline of a solid object, as cast by its shadow
2026-03-12   (Back to the Day)
  dilate   Example sentences     speak
v. make wider or larger; cause to expand; enlarge; widen
  gaseous   Example sentences     speak
a. of gas; gas-like; lacking substance or concreteness
  necessitate   Example sentences     speak
v. make necessary or indispensable; render unavoidable
2026-03-11   (Back to the Day)
  slothful   Example sentences     speak
a. lazy; disinclined to work or exertion; inactive; sluggish
  displacement   Example sentences     speak
n. act of removing from office or employment
2026-03-10   (Back to the Day)
  convivial   Example sentences     speak
a. festive; occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company
  apathetic   Example sentences     speak
a. feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent
  torrid   Example sentences     speak
a. passionate; hot or scorching; hurried or rapid
2026-03-09   (Back to the Day)
  circumspect   Example sentences     speak
a. carefully aware of all circumstances; cautious
  admonish   Example sentences     speak
v. warn; counsel someone against something to be avoided
2026-03-06   (Back to the Day)
  putrid   Example sentences     speak
a. decomposed and foul-smelling; rotten; decayed
  suave   Example sentences     speak
a. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; having a sophisticated charm
2026-03-05   (Back to the Day)
  cynic   Example sentences     speak
n. a person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for honorable or unselfish reasons
  crypt   Example sentences     speak
n. a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber, especially beneath a church
  obtuse   Example sentences     speak
a. lacking in insight or discernment; stupid
2026-03-04   (Back to the Day)
  usurp   Example sentences     speak
v. seize and hold power or rights of another by force or without legal authority
  ratify   Example sentences     speak
v. approve formally; confirm; verify
2026-03-03   (Back to the Day)
  tart   Example sentences     speak
n. a species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie
  sediment   Example sentences     speak
n. deposit; matter deposited by some natural process
  tawdry   Example sentences     speak
a. cheap in nature or appearance; tastelessly showy; shameful or indecent
2026-03-02   (Back to the Day)
  curvature   Example sentences     speak
n. the rate of change at a point of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve; a curving or bending, often abnormal
  emit   Example sentences     speak
v. give off; send out; give out as sound
2026-02-27   (Back to the Day)
  diaphragm   Example sentences     speak
n. a thin disk that vibrates when receiving or producing sound waves, as in a telephone, microphone, speaker, or the like
  proficient   Example sentences     speak
a. skilled; expert; having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
2026-02-26   (Back to the Day)
  narrate   Example sentences     speak
v. to give an account or tell the story of
  pigment   Example sentences     speak
n. substance used as coloring; dry coloring matter
  segment   Example sentences     speak
n. sector; portion; any of the parts into which something can be divided
2026-02-25   (Back to the Day)
  misconception   Example sentences     speak
n. mistaken thought, idea, or notion; erroneous conception; false opinion
  formulate   Example sentences     speak
v. decide upon and express in words
2026-02-24   (Back to the Day)
  phenomenal   Example sentences     speak
a. exceedingly or unbelievably great
  rift   Example sentences     speak
n. shallow area in a waterway; break in friendly relations; narrow fissure in rock
  dynamic   Example sentences     speak
a. energetic; vigorously active
2026-02-23   (Back to the Day)
  allure   Example sentences     speak
v. attract with something desirable; be highly, often subtly attractive
  rebuff   Example sentences     speak
v. offer sudden or harsh resistance; turn down or shut out; repel or drive back
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