12th Grade Words of the Day

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 Word of the Day for Grade 12
Specified Day: 2025-01-21
demurespeak speak spelling sentences 
a. modest and reserved in manner or behavior
She went downstairs calmly, with her old demure bearing, at dinner-time.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
Her hair was demure, low on her forehead with a parting and a coiled braid.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Again, another reminded her of children at play, and still another of nothing on earth but a demure lady stroking a cat.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
obscenespeak speak spelling sentences 
n. offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty; repulsive; disgusting
They became sodden, stupid, ugly or obscene.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
Ravished by dead words become obscene, and dead ideas become obsessions.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
Before they got her story she had five more minutes of obscene wallowing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
equivocalspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. open to two or more interpretations and often intended to mislead
On his side the inclination was stronger, on hers less equivocal.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
But there was less equivocal testimony, which the credulity of the assembly, or of the greater part, greedily swallowed, however incredible.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
Thus, all things considered, Haley, with rather an equivocal grace, proceeded to the parlor, while Sam, rolling his eyes after him with unutterable meaning, proceeded gravely with the horses to the stable-yard.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
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Words of the recent 15 days
2025-01-20   (Back to the Day)
  portly   speakExamples  
a. inoffensive expression of fat; stout
  revert   speakExamples  
v. return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief; backslide; turn back to
2025-01-17   (Back to the Day)
  somber   speakExamples  
a. gloomy; depressing or grave; dull or dark in color
  feasible   speakExamples  
a. capable of being accomplished or brought about
2025-01-16   (Back to the Day)
  pinnacle   speakExamples  
n. peak; tall pointed formation, such as mountain peak
  medley   speakExamples  
n. mixture; musical composition consisting of a series of pieces
  evasion   speakExamples  
n. the deliberate act of failing to pay money; the act of physically escaping from something by some adroit maneuver
2025-01-15   (Back to the Day)
  exuberant   speakExamples  
a. high spirited; joyously unrestrained; abundant; luxurious
  effusion   speakExamples  
n. flow under pressure; an unrestrained expression of emotion
2025-01-14   (Back to the Day)
  sector   speakExamples  
n. particular aspect of life or activity; body of people who form part of society or economy
  avow   speakExamples  
v. declare openly; acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly
  concord   speakExamples  
n. agreement of opinions; harmonious state of things
2025-01-13   (Back to the Day)
  acquiesce   speakExamples  
v. assent; accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively
  vigil   speakExamples  
n. a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe; a period of sleeplessness
2025-01-10   (Back to the Day)
  convulsion   speakExamples  
n. unnatural and violent contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body; any violent and irregular motion or agitation; violent shaking; tumult
  opaque   speakExamples  
a. impenetrable by light; not transparent; not reflecting light; having no luster
2025-01-09   (Back to the Day)
  spasm   speakExamples  
n. involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers
  decorous   speakExamples  
a. according with propriety, dignity, good taste in manners and conduct
  dispel   speakExamples  
v. scatter; drive away; cause to vanish
2025-01-08   (Back to the Day)
  volatile   speakExamples  
a. tending to vary often or widely, as in price; inconstant or fickle; tending to violence
  opulent   speakExamples  
a. rich and superior in quality
2025-01-07   (Back to the Day)
  dupe   speakExamples  
n. easily deceived person; duplicate of photographic image
  disreputable   speakExamples  
a. lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance
  invoke   speakExamples  
v. call upon; ask for; request earnestly
2024-12-20   (Back to the Day)
  illegitimate   speakExamples  
a. not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper
  dregs   speakExamples  
n. sediment settled at bottom of liquid; waste or worthless matter
2024-12-19   (Back to the Day)
  panorama   speakExamples  
v. complete view in every direction.
  ire   speakExamples  
n. anger; wrath; keen resentment; irritate
  bland   speakExamples  
a. lacking stimulating or mild; agreeable
2024-12-18   (Back to the Day)
  equanimity   speakExamples  
n. calmness of temperament; steadiness of mind under stress.
  residue   speakExamples  
n. remainder of something after removal of parts or a part; balance
2024-12-17   (Back to the Day)
  oblique   speakExamples  
a. having slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined
  brevity   speakExamples  
n. quality or state of being brief in duration; concise expression
  plebeian   speakExamples  
a. crude or coarse; unrefined or coarse in nature or manner; common or vulgar
2024-12-16   (Back to the Day)
  froth   speakExamples  
v. exude or expel foam; make froth or foam and become bubbly
  default   speakExamples  
n. failure to act; an option that is selected automatically
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