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: 2025-10-02
tolerablespeak speak spelling sentences 
a. capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally.
I am a wretched being, cut off from everything that makes life tolerable.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
The Dashwoods were now settled at Barton with tolerable comfort to themselves.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
How Wickham and Lydia were to be supported in tolerable independence, she could not imagine.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 50
deityspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. god; divinity; supernatural things
As is usual with bright natures, the deity that lies ignominiously chained within an ephemeral human carcase shone out of him like a ray.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
He swore by all possible deities.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
In a dim light, and with a slight rearrangement of her hair, her general figure might have stood for that of either of the higher female deities.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
roguespeak speak spelling sentences 
n. a deceitful and unreliable person; a dishonest or worthless person
You know as well as I do that the man is a rogue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
The little rogue thought I had not seen her, and, drawing back, she took her former station by the window, quite demurely.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
But in the interval the rogue had learned to imitate you, and his position was therefore secure, as I presume that nobody in the office had ever set eyes upon you.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk
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Words of the recent 15 days
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
2025-09-29   (Back to the Day)
  zealous   speakExamples  
a. enthusiastic; filled with or motivated by zeal
  sundry   speakExamples  
a. various; miscellaneous; separate; distinct; diverse
2025-09-26   (Back to the Day)
  pilgrimage   speakExamples  
n. a journey to a sacred place
  continuance   speakExamples  
n. an activity without interruption; the period of time during which something continues
2025-09-25   (Back to the Day)
  wan   speakExamples  
a. having a pale or sickly color; unnaturally pale, as from physical or emotional distress
  grotesque   speakExamples  
a. fantastic; comically hideous; unnatural in shape or size; abnormal
  gratify   speakExamples  
v. give pleasure to; satisfy; indulge; make happy
2025-09-24   (Back to the Day)
  infernal   speakExamples  
a. pertaining to hell; devilish; abominable; awful
  irony   speakExamples  
n. expression by deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning; witty language used to insult
2025-09-23   (Back to the Day)
  expressly   speakExamples  
ad. particularly; specifically; in an explicit manner
  consul   speakExamples  
n. a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country
  passive   speakExamples  
a. lacking in energy or will; peacefully resistant in response to injustice
2025-09-22   (Back to the Day)
  scope   speakExamples  
n. range of one's perceptions, thoughts, or actions; extent; bound
  organic   speakExamples  
a. simple and healthful and close to nature
2025-09-19   (Back to the Day)
  resolute   speakExamples  
a. firm, unyielding, or determined; having decided purpose
  expressive   speakExamples  
a. effectively conveying thought or feeling; indicative
2025-09-18   (Back to the Day)
  patron   speakExamples  
n. a person who gives financial or other support to people or activity; regular customer
  usage   speakExamples  
n. the act of using; accepted or habitual practice; the customary manner in which a language is spoken or written
  personage   speakExamples  
n. form, appearance, or belongings of a person; external appearance, stature, figure, air
2025-09-17   (Back to the Day)
  allusion   speakExamples  
n. indirect reference; symbolical reference or comparison; metaphor
  humility   speakExamples  
n. quality or condition of being humble; low estimate of one's self; self-abasement
2025-09-16   (Back to the Day)
  tumult   speakExamples  
n. noise, as made by a crowd; riot or uprising
  fidelity   speakExamples  
n. faithfulness to obligations, duties, or observances
  intolerable   speakExamples  
a. incapable of being put up with; unable to be endured
2025-09-15   (Back to the Day)
  rational   speakExamples  
a. consistent with; based on; using reason
  ultimate   speakExamples  
a. final; being the last or concluding; fundamental; elemental; extreme
2025-09-12   (Back to the Day)
  discretion   speakExamples  
n. knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress; trait of judging wisely and objectively
  eloquent   speakExamples  
a. vividly or movingly expressive; persuasive
2025-09-11   (Back to the Day)
  transcribe   speakExamples  
v. copy; write over again in same words
  indemnify   speakExamples  
v. make amends for; pay compensation for; secure against future loss, damage, or liability
  sally   speakExamples  
n. a sudden rushing forth or activity; an excursion or trip, usually off the main course; witty remark
2025-09-10   (Back to the Day)
  concept   speakExamples  
n. something formed in the mind; thought or notion
  innumerable   speakExamples  
a. too many to be counted; numerous
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