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: 2025-01-21
solicitousspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. worried or concerned; full of desire; expressing care or concern
You are too solicitous about him.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
One would be tenderly solicitous.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
She was solicitous about his health and his welfare.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
articulatespeak speak spelling sentences 
a. expressing oneself easily in clear and effective language
Some of the pigs themselves, however, were more articulate.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
Levin, shaking with sobs and unable to articulate a word, went out of the room.
Anna Karenina(V2) By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 18
His voice was shrill, but very clear and articulate; and I could distinctly hear it when I stood up.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II.
despicablespeak speak spelling sentences 
a. fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless
Somehow, that seemed a despicable occupation.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
All that had so long engaged my attention suddenly grew despicable.
Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
It was a peculiar combination of old-maidishness and licentiousness that made Cutter seem so despicable.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
Review Words:   Rrecent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2025-01-20   (Back to the Day)
  batter   speakExamples  
v. beat with successive blows; beat repeatedly and with violence
  counterpart   speakExamples  
n. duplicate copy; analogue; one that closely resembles another
2025-01-17   (Back to the Day)
  desist   speakExamples  
v. cease to proceed or act; stop; forbear
  prescribe   speakExamples  
v. dictate; guide; advise the use of; assert a right; claim
2025-01-16   (Back to the Day)
  indiscreet   speakExamples  
a. lacking discretion; injudicious
  assail   speakExamples  
v. assault; attack with or as if with violent blows
  blight   speakExamples  
v. blast; prevent the growth and fertility of; destroy the happiness of; ruin; frustrate
2025-01-15   (Back to the Day)
  ban   speakExamples  
n. official prohibition; decree that prohibits something
  propensity   speakExamples  
n. natural inclination; tendency or preference; predilection
2025-01-14   (Back to the Day)
  laudable   speakExamples  
a. deserving of praise; worthy of high praise
  wither   speakExamples  
v. shrivel; decay; lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; loss of moisture
  innovation   speakExamples  
n. a new method, idea, product; introduction of something new
2025-01-13   (Back to the Day)
  persuasive   speakExamples  
a. capable of convincing; having the power to induce action or belief
  detest   speakExamples  
v. dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards
2025-01-10   (Back to the Day)
  subjective   speakExamples  
a. occurring or taking place in person's mind rather than external world; unreal
  barter   speakExamples  
v. trade goods or services without the exchange of money
2025-01-09   (Back to the Day)
  durable   speakExamples  
a. lasting; able to withstand wear, pressure, or damage; hard wearing; enduring
  adapt   speakExamples  
v. make fit for; change to suit a new purpose
  astonish   speakExamples  
v. surprise or impress someone greatly; shock
2025-01-08   (Back to the Day)
  exalt   speakExamples  
v. raise in rank or dignity; praise
  enrich   speakExamples  
v. make rich; richen; improve
2025-01-07   (Back to the Day)
  sieve   speakExamples  
n. device to separate larger objects from smaller objects, or to separate solid objects from a liquid; utensil for separating; coarse basket
  onset   speakExamples  
n. beginning or early stages; offensive against enemy
  receptacle   speakExamples  
n. container; reservoir; an object or space used to contain something
2024-12-20   (Back to the Day)
  mercenary   speakExamples  
a. interested in making money; profit oriented; hired for service in foreign army
  diction   speakExamples  
n. choice and use of words in speech or writing
2024-12-19   (Back to the Day)
  oblong   speakExamples  
a. having greater length than breadth, especially when rectangular
  astounding   speakExamples  
a. surprisingly impressive or notable; shocking
  afoot   speakExamples  
a. currently in progress; traveling by foot
2024-12-18   (Back to the Day)
  safeguard   speakExamples  
n. one who, or that which, defends or protects; defense; protection
  lurid   speakExamples  
a. causing shock or horror; gruesome
2024-12-17   (Back to the Day)
  inscrutable   speakExamples  
a. impenetrable; not readily understood; mysterious
  aspiration   speakExamples  
n. a hope or ambition of achieving something; the action or process of drawing breath
  hallowed   speakExamples  
a. associated with a divine power; made holy; worthy of religious veneration
2024-12-16   (Back to the Day)
  facilitate   speakExamples  
v. help bring about; make less difficult
  retinue   speakExamples  
n. following members; attendants accompanying high-ranking person
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