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: 2026-05-08
cajolespeak speak spelling sentences 
v. influence or urge by gentle urging or flattering
By cajoling Legree, and taking advantage of a good-natured interval, Cassy had got him to take her with him to the neighboring town, which was situated directly on the Red River.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
abysmalspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. bottomless; very profound; limitless; very bad
There only fell on her an abysmal fear, a certain knowledge that God had turned His face from her for her sin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
At home she wondered if the little beast might not be suggesting himself as a rival to Erik, but that abysmal bedragglement she would not consider.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
The film was a highly advertised and abysmal thing smacking of simpering hair-dressers, cheap perfume, red-plush suites on the back streets of tenderloins, and complacent fat women chewing gum.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
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Words of the recent 15 days
2026-05-07   (Back to the Day)
  extradition   Example sentences     speak
n. surrender of prisoner by one state to another; delivery by one state to another
  ravish   Example sentences     speak
v. force someone to have sex against their will; hold spellbound
  sear   Example sentences     speak
v. make very hot and dry; become superficially burned
2026-05-06   (Back to the Day)
  mutation   Example sentences     speak
n. change; alteration, either in form or qualities.
  minutiae   Example sentences     speak
n. petty details; small particular or detail; a minute or trivial matter of fact
2026-05-05   (Back to the Day)
  foible   Example sentences     speak
n. moral weakness; failing; weak point; slight fault
  torso   Example sentences     speak
n. body excluding head and neck and limbs
  obituary   Example sentences     speak
n. death notice; list of dead
2026-05-04   (Back to the Day)
  manipulate   Example sentences     speak
v. operate with one's hands; control or play upon people, forces artfully
  callow   Example sentences     speak
a. youthful; immature; inexperienced; without feathers
2026-04-30   (Back to the Day)
  heirloom   Example sentences     speak
n. something that has been in a family for generations
  flaunt   Example sentences     speak
v. display proudly or shamelessly; show oneself off
  acrimonious   Example sentences     speak
a. bitter and sharp in language, tone, or manner
2026-04-29   (Back to the Day)
  venerate   Example sentences     speak
v. treat with great respect and deference; consider hallowed or be in awe of
  contentious   Example sentences     speak
a. quarrelsome; disagreeable; marked by heated arguments or controversy
2026-04-28   (Back to the Day)
  quandary   Example sentences     speak
n. dilemma; state of uncertainty or perplexity
  aphorism   Example sentences     speak
n. definition or concise statement of principle; tersely phrased statement of truth or opinion
  delineate   Example sentences     speak
v. portray; depict; draw or trace outline of; sketch out
2026-04-27   (Back to the Day)
  optics   Example sentences     speak
n. the branch of physics that studies the physical properties of ligh; optical properties
  rhapsody   Example sentences     speak
n. an epic poem adapted for recitation
2026-04-24   (Back to the Day)
  liberalism   Example sentences     speak
n. a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution
  surreptitious   Example sentences     speak
a. secret; done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently
2026-04-23   (Back to the Day)
  curtail   Example sentences     speak
v. cut short or reduce; cut off end or tail, or any part
  bureaucracy   Example sentences     speak
n. over regulated administrative system
  qualm   Example sentences     speak
n. sudden feeling of sickness or faintness; sudden attack of illness
2026-04-22   (Back to the Day)
  remittance   Example sentences     speak
n. transmitting money, bills, especially to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation
  laud   Example sentences     speak
v. give praise to; glorify; celebrate or honor
2026-04-21   (Back to the Day)
  duct   Example sentences     speak
n. a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; an enclosed conduit for a fluid
  expedite   Example sentences     speak
v. process fast and efficiently; execute quickly and efficiently
  scrutinize   Example sentences     speak
v. examine closely and critically
2026-04-20   (Back to the Day)
  tangent   Example sentences     speak
n. ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
  flail   Example sentences     speak
v. thresh about; give a thrashing to; beat hard
2026-04-17   (Back to the Day)
  scrimmage   Example sentences     speak
n. a noisy riotous fight; a confused struggle
  farcical   Example sentences     speak
a. broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
2026-04-16   (Back to the Day)
  reinstate   Example sentences     speak
v. place again in possession, or in a former state; restore to a state from which one had been removed
  bogus   Example sentences     speak
a. counterfeit or fake; not authentic; not genuine
  hoax   Example sentences     speak
n. act intended to deceive or trick; practical joke
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