10th Grade Words of the Day

This Words for the Day webpage helps grade 10 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 10th-grade students to get words and their meanings, examples, and context sources.

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 Word of the Day for Grade 10
Specified Day: 2025-09-11
perceivespeak speak spelling sentences 
v. become aware of through the senses; detect
I did not quite perceive the application of this fact to myself, but I smiled on Mrs. Crupp, as benignly as was in my power.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
Elinor needed little observation to perceive that her reserve was a mere calmness of manner with which sense had nothing to do.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
Her daughters are both exceedingly well married, and therefore I cannot perceive the necessity of her remembering them farther.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
infinitespeak speak spelling sentences 
a. unlimited or boundless, in time or space; without limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or excellence
Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Mr. Micawber, I may remark, had taken his full share of the general bow, and had received it with infinite condescension.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
His fine and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow and quenched in infinite wretchedness.
Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
derivespeak speak spelling sentences 
v. obtain or receive from a source; trace the origin or development of
On the contrary, those motions derive their most appalling beauty from it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
I could not derive benefit from the late knowledge I had acquired of your character.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
Review Words:   Rrecent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2025-09-10   (Back to the Day)
  amid   speakExamples  
ad. in the middle of; among; surrounded by
  generation   speakExamples  
n. all offspring at same stage from common ancestor; interval of time between the birth of parents and their offspring
2025-09-09   (Back to the Day)
  appeal   speakExamples  
n. attraction; charm; attract; fascinate; challenge
  humanity   speakExamples  
n. kindness; virtue; all of the inhabitants of the earth
  disposition   speakExamples  
n. natural or acquired habit with tendency; act or means of getting rid of something
2025-09-08   (Back to the Day)
  forehead   speakExamples  
n. the part of the face above the eyes
  singular   speakExamples  
a. unique; extraordinary; being only one
2025-09-05   (Back to the Day)
  doctrine   speakExamples  
n. principles presented for belief, as by religious; principle of law; act of teaching; instruction
  melancholy   speakExamples  
a. gloomy; feeling of thoughtful sadness; affected by depression
2025-09-04   (Back to the Day)
  chamber   speakExamples  
n. a private room, typically a bedroom; compartment; a large room used for formal or public events
  comply   speakExamples  
v. yield assent; accord; agree, or acquiesce; adapt one's self; fulfill; accomplish
  dreadful   speakExamples  
a. very unpleasant; distasteful or shocking
2025-09-03   (Back to the Day)
  bore   speakExamples  
v. drill; make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill
  handsome   speakExamples  
a. skillful; handy; agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing appearance; attractive
2025-09-02   (Back to the Day)
  attempt   speakExamples  
n. action of trying at something
  secure   speakExamples  
v. free from fear, care, or anxiety; not have reason to doubt
  frank   speakExamples  
a. honest; sincere; open and sincere in expression; straightforward
Below words are in grade 9
2025-07-11   (Back to the Day)
  ventriloquist   speakExamples  
n. one who can make his voice seem to come from another person or thing
  worthwhile   speakExamples  
a. sufficiently valuable; important to be worth one's time, effort, or interest
2025-07-10   (Back to the Day)
  toxic   speakExamples  
a. poisonous; caused by a toxin or other poison
  trek   speakExamples  
n. travel; journey or leg of a journey, especially when slow or difficult
  vaccine   speakExamples  
n. harmless form of the germs that cause a disease to prevent people getting the actual disease
2025-07-09   (Back to the Day)
  terrain   speakExamples  
n. piece of ground having specific characteristics or military potential; area of land; ground
  therapeutic   speakExamples  
a. curative; having or exhibiting healing powers; relating to healing art
2025-07-08   (Back to the Day)
  smolder   speakExamples  
v. burn without flame; be liable to break out at any moment
  sophomoric   speakExamples  
a. immature; half-baked, like a sophomore
  spasmodic   speakExamples  
a. affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; periodic
2025-07-07   (Back to the Day)
  skeptic   speakExamples  
n. doubter; person who suspends judgment until evidence has been examined
  slacken   speakExamples  
v. become slower; loosen; become less vigorous, intense, or severe
2025-07-04   (Back to the Day)
  scrumptious   speakExamples  
a. nice; particular; fastidious; excellent; fine
  sheathe   speakExamples  
v. enclose with protective covering; encase; cover up or hide
2025-07-03   (Back to the Day)
  retreat   speakExamples  
n. receding; pull back or move away or backward; withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position
  rodent   speakExamples  
n. gnawing; biting; corroding; any of various mammals of rodent, such as a mouse, rat, squirrel,
  rotate   speakExamples  
v. plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; swirl; revolve; turn on or around an axis or a center
2025-07-02   (Back to the Day)
  reconnaissance   speakExamples  
n. gain information about enemy; inspection or exploration of an area
  repatriate   speakExamples  
v. restore or return to the country of birth, citizenship, or origin
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