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: 2025-10-22
colleaguespeak speak spelling sentences 
n. fellow worker; associate; co-worker
My colleague, Mr. Lestrade, is here.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
This professor was very unlike his colleague.
Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
He is, doubtless, come to prove the perfect innocence of our colleague.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 86. The Trial.
encampmentspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
It had been resolved the night before to change their encampment.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
The whole encampment, in a moment, became a scene of the most violent bustle and commotion.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
Just as she was preparing to start walking the long way across town to the Yankee encampment, a battered wagon appeared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Review Words:   Rrecent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2025-10-21   (Back to the Day)
  aesthetic   speakExamples  
a. elegant or tasteful; of or concerning appreciation of beauty or good taste
  organism   speakExamples  
n. living being; system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body
  heritage   speakExamples  
n. legacy; something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition
2025-10-20   (Back to the Day)
  abject   speakExamples  
a. being of the most miserable kind; wretched; lacking pride; brought low in condition or status
  wistful   speakExamples  
a. full of wishful yearning or longing; sadly thoughtful
2025-10-17   (Back to the Day)
  perspective   speakExamples  
n. appearance of things; view, outlook, or vista
  reverie   speakExamples  
n. daydream; state of abstracted musing; absent-minded dreaming while awake
2025-10-16   (Back to the Day)
  intuition   speakExamples  
n. immediate insight; power of knowing without reasoning
  rue   speakExamples  
v. feel regret, remorse, or sorrow for; mourn
  diverse   speakExamples  
a. differing in some characteristics; various
2025-10-15   (Back to the Day)
  invincible   speakExamples  
a. incapable of being overcome or defeated; unconquerable
  impertinent   speakExamples  
a. improperly forward or bold; rude
2025-10-14   (Back to the Day)
  deficient   speakExamples  
a. inadequate; lacking an essential quality or element
  affectation   speakExamples  
n. a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
  befall   speakExamples  
v. happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance
2025-10-13   (Back to the Day)
  oblivion   speakExamples  
n. condition or quality of being completely forgotten; official overlooking of offenses; amnesty
  frivolous   speakExamples  
a. lacking in seriousness; not serious; relatively unimportant
2025-10-10   (Back to the Day)
  temperate   speakExamples  
a. restrained; self-controlled; moderate in degree or quality
  eccentric   speakExamples  
a. departing from a recognized, conventional, or established norm or pattern
2025-10-09   (Back to the Day)
  profess   speakExamples  
v. state freely; practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about; confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
  spontaneous   speakExamples  
a. arising without external cause; growing without cultivation or human labor
  renounce   speakExamples  
v. abandon; disown; turn away from; give up
2025-10-08   (Back to the Day)
  imperative   speakExamples  
n. having power command or control; critically importance; some duty that is essential and urgent
  appalling   speakExamples  
a. causing or fitted to cause dismay or horror; frightful
2025-10-07   (Back to the Day)
  maternal   speakExamples  
a. motherly; relating to mother or motherhood
  dialect   speakExamples  
n. vocabulary that is for a specific group of people
  contemptuous   speakExamples  
a. scornful; expressing contempt; showing a lack of respect
2025-10-06   (Back to the Day)
  rebuke   speakExamples  
v. scold harshly; criticize severely
  morbid   speakExamples  
a. caused by disease; pathological or diseased; unhealthy or unwholesome
2025-10-03   (Back to the Day)
  radical   speakExamples  
a. drastic; extreme; arising from or going to a root or source; basic
  wanton   speakExamples  
a. unrestrained; willfully malicious; immoral or unchaste
2025-10-02   (Back to the Day)
  tolerable   speakExamples  
a. capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally.
  deity   speakExamples  
n. god; divinity; supernatural things
  rogue   speakExamples  
n. a deceitful and unreliable person; a dishonest or worthless person
2025-09-30   (Back to the Day)
  deference   speakExamples  
n. willingness to carry out the wishes of others; great respect
  satire   speakExamples  
n. form of literature in which irony and ridicule are used to attack human vice and folly
  vitality   speakExamples  
n. energetic style; being able to survive and grow; capacity to live, grow, or develop
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University of Kansas
I shall see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.

Clark University
Let there be light.

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