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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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
 Word of the Day for Grade 12
Specified Day: 2026-03-23
hackneyedspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. repeated too often; over familiar through overuse
I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
Before commencing, it is but fair to warn you that the story will sound somewhat hackneyed in your ears; but stale details often regain a degree of freshness when they pass through new lips.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
His principal object must be to discover the number of the hackney coach which took them from Clapham.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 47
solventspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. able to pay all debts; capable of meeting financial obligations
The opinion of all the commercial men was that, under the reverses which had successively weighed down Morrel, it was impossible for him to remain solvent.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
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Words of the recent 15 days
2026-03-20   (Back to the Day)
  humiliate   Example sentences     speak
v. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
  forthright   Example sentences     speak
a. directly ahead; straightforward
2026-03-19   (Back to the Day)
  maudlin   Example sentences     speak
a. tearfully sentimental; over-emotional; sickly-sentimental
  narcotic   Example sentences     speak
n. addictive drug, such as opium, that reduces pain, alters mood and behavior; inducing sleep
  humdrum   Example sentences     speak
a. lacking variety or excitement; monotonous
2026-03-18   (Back to the Day)
  annul   Example sentences     speak
v. make or declare void or invalid; reduce to nothing
  finesse   Example sentences     speak
n. refinement and delicacy of performance; skillful, subtle handling
2026-03-17   (Back to the Day)
  incorporate   Example sentences     speak
v. combine something into a larger whole; unite
  dignitary   Example sentences     speak
n. an important or influential person, and often overbearing
  ensemble   Example sentences     speak
n. union of parts in a whole; a coordinated outfit or costume; a coordinated set of furniture
2026-03-16   (Back to the Day)
  definitive   Example sentences     speak
a. final; complete; precisely defined or explicit
  squander   Example sentences     speak
v. spend wastefully; fail to take advantage of; lose a chance for
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
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