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: 2025-01-29
pacifyspeak speak spelling sentences 
v. ease anger or agitation of; make calm or quiet; end war or violence
To pacify Mary, and perhaps screen her own embarrassment, Anne did move quietly to the window.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
Meantime, Teta Elzbieta would go and beg, over in the Hyde Park district, and the children would bring home enough to pacify Aniele, and keep them all alive.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
Sir Henry had to assure him that it was not so and pacify him by giving him a considerable part of his old wardrobe, the London outfit having now all arrived.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By A. Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
facetiousspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. joking ,often inappropriately; humorous
However, he took affairs as coolly as it was in human nature to do, and entertained himself with the facetious idea of the training more than once.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
But, making Oliver cry, Noah attempted to be more facetious still; and in his attempt, did what many sometimes do to this day, when they want to be funny.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
With the passionate song of the bullets and the banshee shrieks of shells were mingled loud catcalls and bits of facetious advice concerning places of safety.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
Review Words:   Rrecent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2025-01-28   (Back to the Day)
  cosmic   speakExamples  
a. pertaining to the universe; vast
  idiom   speakExamples  
n. expression whose meaning differs from meanings of its individual words; distinctive style
  overture   speakExamples  
n. an opening or aperture; recess; introductory section or part, as of a poem
2025-01-27   (Back to the Day)
  stigma   speakExamples  
n. symbol of disgrace; small mark, as scar or birthmark; mark made with red-hot iron
  ravenous   speakExamples  
a. extremely hungry; voracious; eager for prey
2025-01-24   (Back to the Day)
  component   speakExamples  
n. element; ingredient; abstract part of something
  feign   speakExamples  
v. make false appearance of; disguise; conceal; invent or imagine
2025-01-23   (Back to the Day)
  dogmatic   speakExamples  
a. stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proven beliefs; inflexible, rigid
  enhance   speakExamples  
v. make better or more attractive; increase; improve
  enigma   speakExamples  
n. puzzle; a person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand
2025-01-22   (Back to the Day)
  annihilate   speakExamples  
v. destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence
  hovel   speakExamples  
n. small or simply constructed dwelling; small, wretched house
2025-01-21   (Back to the Day)
  demure   speakExamples  
a. modest and reserved in manner or behavior
  obscene   speakExamples  
n. offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty; repulsive; disgusting
  equivocal   speakExamples  
a. open to two or more interpretations and often intended to mislead
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
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