11th Grade Words of the Day

This Words for the Day webpage helps grade 11 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 11th-grade students to get words and their meanings, examples, and context sources.

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 Word of the Day for Grade 11
Specified Day: 2025-09-18
enormousspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. very great in size, extent, number, or degrees; huge; massive
It was a body capable of enormous leverage--a cruel body.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Eckleburg which had just emerged pale and enormous from the dissolving night.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
practicallyspeak speak spelling sentences 
ad. virtually; actually; for all practical purpose
They were practically alone and he might never get another such opportunity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
And he wanted to prove this theoretically in his book and practically on his land.
Anna Karenina(V1) By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 29
Uncle Peter practically raised Melanie and me, for we were very young when Father and Mother died.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
characteristicspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait
She knew that characteristic in her husband, and liked it.
Anna Karenina(V1) By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 33
Mystery and secrecy have long been his principal characteristic, have long replaced unlimited confidence.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
It was a characteristic feature in this repentance, that I was fain to ask what these two men had done, to be there at all.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
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Words of the recent 15 days
2025-09-17   (Back to the Day)
  distinction   speakExamples  
n. excellence or eminence; note or mark of difference
  essential   speakExamples  
a. necessary; critical; vital; constituting or being part of the essence of something
2025-09-16   (Back to the Day)
  occasionally   speakExamples  
ad. now and then; from time to time; infrequently; irregularly
  opposition   speakExamples  
n. condition of being in conflict; act of opposing something
  circumstance   speakExamples  
n. situation; condition; detail accompanying or surrounding an event
2025-09-15   (Back to the Day)
  resolution   speakExamples  
n. determination; resolving to do something; formal statement of a decision
  reference   speakExamples  
n. act of referring or consulting; remark that calls attention to something or someone
2025-09-12   (Back to the Day)
  consciousness   speakExamples  
n. having knowledge of ; special awareness or sensitivity:
  liability   speakExamples  
n. something that holds one back; state of being legally obliged and responsible
2025-09-11   (Back to the Day)
  immense   speakExamples  
a. enormous; boundless; so great as to be beyond measurement
  absolute   speakExamples  
a. perfect in quality or nature; complete; totally unlimited; certain
  readily   speakExamples  
ad. easily; quickly; in a prompt, timely manner; promptly
2025-09-10   (Back to the Day)
  curiosity   speakExamples  
n. a strong desire to know or learn something
  earnest   speakExamples  
n. seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness
2025-09-09   (Back to the Day)
  committed   speakExamples  
a. feeling dedication and loyalty to a cause, activity, or job; devoted
  acquaintance   speakExamples  
n. personal knowledge or information about someone or something
  successful   speakExamples  
a. having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome
2025-09-08   (Back to the Day)
  absence   speakExamples  
n. state of being absent; state of being away
  spiritual   speakExamples  
a. not tangible or material; belonging to religion; sacred; supernatural
2025-09-05   (Back to the Day)
  distinguished   speakExamples  
a. prominent; celebrated, well-known or eminent because of past achievements
  extraordinary   speakExamples  
a. exceptional; remarkable; beyond what is ordinary or usual
2025-09-04   (Back to the Day)
  ordinary   speakExamples  
a. not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; lacking special distinction, rank, or status
  prove   speakExamples  
v. increase in volume; be shown or be found to be; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof
  expense   speakExamples  
n. amounts paid for goods and services
2025-09-03   (Back to the Day)
  religious   speakExamples  
a. of religion; concerned with religion; having or showing belief in and reverence for God or a deity
  sufficient   speakExamples  
a. adequate; enough; being as much as is needed
2025-09-02   (Back to the Day)
  gentleman   speakExamples  
n. a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; a man of refinement
  regard   speakExamples  
v. deem to be; connect closely and often incriminatingly; look at attentively
  considerable   speakExamples  
a. worthy of consideration; large in amount, extent, or degree
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2025-07-11   (Back to the Day)
  whittle   speakExamples  
v. reduce or eliminate gradually, with knife; cut small bits off
  xenophobia   speakExamples  
n. exaggerated or abnormal fear of strangers or foreigners
2025-07-10   (Back to the Day)
  unpronounceable   speakExamples  
a. impossible or difficult to pronounce correctly; very difficult to pronounce correctly
  utensil   speakExamples  
n. instrument, implement, or container for practical use, especially in kitchen or laboratory
  vignette   speakExamples  
n. unbordered picture, often a portrait; decorative design placed at beginning or end of book or chapter; short literary sketch
2025-07-09   (Back to the Day)
  underhanded   speakExamples  
a. short-handed; clandestine; marked by deception
  underwrite   speakExamples  
v. write under something else; subscribe; assume financial responsibility for; guarantee against failure
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