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: 2026-10-12
| spontaneous |     |
a. arising without external cause; growing without cultivation or human labor
Everything about him was warm and spontaneous.
On the contrary, he was burningly, poignantly grateful for a piece of natural, spontaneous kindness: almost to tears.
It seems, on the contrary, to have been a perfectly spontaneous, untaught feeling on his side, and this surprises me.
| renounce | |
v. abandon; disown; turn away from; give up
But I have turned the matter as I could; you are safe if you renounce Rebecca.
But while they freely waive a ceremonial like this, they do by no means renounce their claim to more solid tribute.
The picture of his wife not letting him go was so pleasant that he was ready to renounce the delights of looking upon bears forever.
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2026-10-09 (Back to the Day)
appalling 
a. causing or fitted to cause dismay or horror; frightful
profess
v. state freely; practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about; confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
2026-10-08 (Back to the Day)
dialect
n. vocabulary that is for a specific group of people
contemptuous
a. scornful; expressing contempt; showing a lack of respect
imperative
n. having power command or control; critically importance; some duty that is essential and urgent
2026-10-07 (Back to the Day)
morbid
a. caused by disease; pathological or diseased; unhealthy or unwholesome
maternal
a. motherly; relating to mother or motherhood
2026-10-06 (Back to the Day)
radical
a. drastic; extreme; arising from or going to a root or source; basic
wanton
a. unrestrained; willfully malicious; immoral or unchaste
rebuke
v. scold harshly; criticize severely
2026-10-05 (Back to the Day)
deity
n. god; divinity; supernatural things
rogue
n. a deceitful and unreliable person; a dishonest or worthless person
2026-10-02 (Back to the Day)
vitality
n. energetic style; being able to survive and grow; capacity to live, grow, or develop
tolerable
a. capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally.
2026-09-30 (Back to the Day)
deference
n. willingness to carry out the wishes of others; great respect
satire
n. form of literature in which irony and ridicule are used to attack human vice and folly
2026-09-29 (Back to the Day)
continuance
n. an activity without interruption; the period of time during which something continues
zealous
a. enthusiastic; filled with or motivated by zeal
sundry
a. various; miscellaneous; separate; distinct; diverse
2026-09-28 (Back to the Day)
gratify
v. give pleasure to; satisfy; indulge; make happy
pilgrimage
n. a journey to a sacred place
2026-09-25 (Back to the Day)
wan
a. having a pale or sickly color; unnaturally pale, as from physical or emotional distress
grotesque
a. fantastic; comically hideous; unnatural in shape or size; abnormal
2026-09-24 (Back to the Day)
passive
a. lacking in energy or will; peacefully resistant in response to injustice
infernal
a. pertaining to hell; devilish; abominable; awful
irony
n. expression by deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning; witty language used to insult
2026-09-23 (Back to the Day)
expressly
ad. particularly; specifically; in an explicit manner
consul
n. a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country
2026-09-22 (Back to the Day)
expressive
a. effectively conveying thought or feeling; indicative
scope
n. range of one's perceptions, thoughts, or actions; extent; bound
organic
a. simple and healthful and close to nature
2026-09-21 (Back to the Day)
personage
n. form, appearance, or belongings of a person; external appearance, stature, figure, air
resolute
a. firm, unyielding, or determined; having decided purpose
2026-09-18 (Back to the Day)
patron
n. a person who gives financial or other support to people or activity; regular customer
usage
n. the act of using; accepted or habitual practice; the customary manner in which a language is spoken or written