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: 2025-04-08
incisionspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. cutting into a substance; cut into a body tissue or organ, especially one made during surgery
Forty teeth, namely twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
That cold, incisive, ironical voice could belong to but one man in all the world.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By A. Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
It was he who at once, in an incisive and positive tone, opened the conversation.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
gluttonspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. person who eats too much food and drink
Now there came a certain common tramp who used to go begging all over the city of Ithaca, and was notorious as an incorrigible glutton and drunkard.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVIII
Red Admirals gluttonously absorbed richness from dish cloths, cabbage whites drank icy coolness from silver paper.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
Cora, already regretting her precipitation, was obliged to comply, for Magua instantly left the spot, and approached his gluttonous comrades.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
collegiatespeak speak spelling sentences 
a. of or resembling or typical of a college or college students
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Words of the recent 15 days
2025-04-07   (Back to the Day)
  cognizant   speakExamples  
a. having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception
  concurrent   speakExamples  
a. simultaneous; coincident; occurring or operating at the same time
2025-04-04   (Back to the Day)
  revoke   speakExamples  
v. void or annul by recalling, withdrawing, or reversing; cancel; retract
  emancipate   speakExamples  
v. free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate
2025-04-03   (Back to the Day)
  dote   speakExamples  
v. be excessively fond of; show signs of mental decline
  radiate   speakExamples  
v. spread out; effuse; issue or emerge in rays or waves
  pliable   speakExamples  
a. flexible; yielding; easily bent or shaped
2025-04-02   (Back to the Day)
  tirade   speakExamples  
n. extended scolding; long angry or violent speech
  waif   speakExamples  
n. homeless person, especially orphaned child; abandoned young animal
2025-03-31   (Back to the Day)
  embellish   speakExamples  
v. adorn; make beautiful, as by ornamentation; decorate
  demolition   speakExamples  
n. act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying
2025-03-28   (Back to the Day)
  demented   speakExamples  
a. insane; mad; of unsound mind; mentally ill
  carnivorous   speakExamples  
a. eating or feeding on flesh; predatory
2025-03-27   (Back to the Day)
  depreciate   speakExamples  
v. lessen price or value of; think or speak of as being of little worth; belittle
  finale   speakExamples  
n. concluding part; closing section
  pessimistic   speakExamples  
a. expecting the worst possible outcome
2025-03-26   (Back to the Day)
  eradicate   speakExamples  
v. completely destroy; eliminate; exterminate
  nefarious   speakExamples  
a. very wicked; infamous by being extremely wicked
2025-03-25   (Back to the Day)
  ferret   speakExamples  
v. drive or hunt out of hiding; uncover and bring to light by searching
  synthetic   speakExamples  
a. artificial; involving or of the nature of synthesis as opposed to analysis
  acumen   speakExamples  
n. mental keenness; quickness of perception
2025-03-24   (Back to the Day)
  aberration   speakExamples  
n. a disorder in one's mental state; a state or condition markedly different from the norm
  parry   speakExamples  
v. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing
2025-03-21   (Back to the Day)
  hackneyed   speakExamples  
a. repeated too often; over familiar through overuse
  solvent   speakExamples  
a. able to pay all debts; capable of meeting financial obligations
2025-03-20   (Back to the Day)
  humdrum   speakExamples  
a. lacking variety or excitement; monotonous
  humiliate   speakExamples  
v. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
  forthright   speakExamples  
a. directly ahead; straightforward
2025-03-19   (Back to the Day)
  maudlin   speakExamples  
a. tearfully sentimental; over-emotional; sickly-sentimental
  narcotic   speakExamples  
n. addictive drug, such as opium, that reduces pain, alters mood and behavior; inducing sleep
2025-03-18   (Back to the Day)
  ensemble   speakExamples  
n. union of parts in a whole; a coordinated outfit or costume; a coordinated set of furniture
  annul   speakExamples  
v. make or declare void or invalid; reduce to nothing
  finesse   speakExamples  
n. refinement and delicacy of performance; skillful, subtle handling
2025-03-17   (Back to the Day)
  incorporate   speakExamples  
v. combine something into a larger whole; unite
  dignitary   speakExamples  
n. an important or influential person, and often overbearing
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