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Enhance Your Vocabulary Journey

Explore a 37-day vocabulary challenge to learn and master new words daily with context clues in engaging sentences. Build your language skills effortlessly while enhancing your communication abilities and enriching your daily conversations.

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Enhance Your Vocabulary Journey

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  1. Bobby Roberts 08/27/12 1 #1 Evanescent Temporary The evanescent substitute helped the teacher with the lesson.

  2. #1 Evanescent (adjective) Context clues: The evanescent mist disappears each day after the sun rises above the city.

  3. #2 Negligible (adjective) Context clues: Such a negligible flaw in the diamond would never be noticed except by a professional.

  4. Day 3 Capitulate (verb) Context Clues: After enduring a brutal siege, the king’s forces army was forced to capitulate.

  5. Day 4 Incessant (adjective) Context clues: Furious about the dog’s incessant barking, the neighbor called the police.

  6. Day 5 Utopia (noun) Context clues: After a harsh winter in North Dakota, Miami seemed like a utopia.

  7. Day 6 Lethargy (noun) Context clues: Mike seems really lethargic; he slept through math today.

  8. Day 7 Fluctuate (verb) Context clues: My mood is fluctuating wildly today. One minute I’m hugging everyone, and the next minute I’m screaming and crying.

  9. Day 8 Capricious (adjective) Context clues: The capricious actress demanded a bowl of green lollipops in her dressing room, decided she didn’t want them, and threw the bowl against the wall.

  10. Day 9 Venerate (verb) Context clues: The venerated professor walked onstage to accept the award.

  11. Day 10 Enigma (noun) Context clues: Baffled by the enigma of the missing socks, Angel decided to call in the experts.

  12. Day 11 Pompous (adjective) Context clues: Ernesto, the most pompous senior in the entire school, struts around the halls like he’s royalty.

  13. Day 12 Zenith (noun) Context clues: At the zenith of her career, she had over five lucrative endorsement deals and was considered a lock for MVP.

  14. Day 13 Clandestine (adjective) Context clues: The government agent trained for years before he began his clandestine activities overseas.

  15. Day 14 Fortuitous (adjective) Context clues: On his way to the gym, Andrew made a fortuitous discovery: a hundred dollar bill lying on the sidewalk.

  16. Day 15 Propensity (noun) Context clues: The trophy wife had a propensity for flashy, expensive clothes.

  17. Day 20 Sporadic (adjective) Context clues: Beth’s sporadic attendance infuriated Coach Maver, who accused her of not truly caring about floor hockey.

  18. Day 18 Sycophant (noun) Context clues: Bill is such a sycophant. As student council president, all he does is kiss up to the principal and praise all of the vice principal’s decisions.

  19. Day 19 Efface (verb) Context clues: Although he tried, he could not efface the guilt from his conscience.

  20. Day 20 Spurious (adjective) Context clues: Abe tried to defend himself against spurious accusations that he had rigged the cheerleading competition.

  21. Day 21 Benevolent (adjective) Context clues: The benevolent alumnus lavished money on his alma mater, urging the creation of a fund for impoverished applicants.

  22. Day 22 Acquiesce (verb) Context clues: After enduring hours of nagging and whining, the mother acquiesced to her son’s pleas and gave him a later curfew.

  23. Day 23 Partisan (adjective) Context clues: Although the president promised to change the tone, the year was characterized by bitter partisan bickering.

  24. Day 24 Candid (adjective) Context clues: “Be candid,” said Chris. “Do these pants make me look fat?”

  25. Day 25 Parochial (adjective) Context clues: After years of living a sophisticated, liberal life in the city, Sammy found his parents’ small-town mindset unbearably parochial.

  26. Day 26 Rhetoric (noun) Context clues: Claudia is a master of rhetoric. After listening to her for a few minutes, you will believe whatever she is telling you.

  27. Day 27 Taciturn (adjective) Context clues: The taciturn patient spent her time staring at the wall and ignoring her nurses.

  28. Day 28 Irrefutable (adjective) Context clues: The evidence was irrefutable, and the jury convicted her after only an hour of deliberation.

  29. Day 29 Cajole (verb) Context clues: After much cajoling and wheedling, Alex managed to get the prom queen to go on a date with him.

  30. Day 30 Iconoclast (noun) Context clues: One iconoclast wore jeans to the prom, which enraged the prom committee.

  31. Day 31 Disseminate (verb) Context clues: The dissemination of information always happened right after school, when groups of friends got together and gossiped about the day’s news.

  32. Day 32 Aloof (adjective) Context clues: Unlike the eager and friendly dog, who barked with excitement whenever she saw her owner, the cat was aloof and disliked human company.

  33. Day 33 Innate (adjective) Context clues: My skating expertise is a combination of innate ability and dedicated training.

  34. Day 34 Placate (verb) Context clues: In an attempt to placate the furious fans, the referee agreed that the point was good.

  35. Day 35 Fallacy (noun) Context clues: A lot of people believe that going outside with wet hair will give you a cold, but that’s a total fallacy.

  36. Day 36 Magnanimous (adjective) Context clues: In a magnanimous gesture, the oil magnate donated five million dollars to a local animal shelter.

  37. Day 37 Expedite (verb) Context clues: In order to expedite the check-in process, please have your ID ready.

  38. Day 38 Salubrious (adjective) Context clues: The doctor recommended such salubrious actions as jogging, eating leafy greens, and getting more sleep.

  39. Day 39 Elucidate (verb) Context clues: The tutor tried her best to elucidate the algebra concept, but Ben just stared at her with a glazed look in his eyes.

  40. Day 40 Dulcet (adjective) Context clues: In dulcet tones, the mother sang her child to sleep.

  41. Day 41 Augment (verb) Context clues: Ali, determined to augment her Barbie collection, spent every free afternoon searching for new dolls.

  42. Day 42 Paltry (adjective) Context clues: For three years, the castaway survived on paltry amounts of fish, coconut, and bamboo.

  43. Day 43 Judicious (adjective) Context clues: After making a judicious comparison of both paintings, Mrs. Johnson awarded the blue ribbon to the still life of fried calamari.

  44. Day 44 Perfunctory (adjective) Context clues: After delivering a perfunctory greeting to her assembled aunts and uncles, Sarah slunk out of the room and went looking for her cousins.

  45. Day 45 Winsome (adjective) Context clues: Julia treated the handsome checkout guy to a winsome smile.

  46. Day 46 Homogeneous (adjective) Context clues: The student body at the state college is totally homogeneous; everyone looks like they’ve just stepped out of a Hollister catalog.

  47. Day 47 Omnivorous (adjective) Context clues: I used to be a vegetarian, but I started having intense turkey cravings, so now I’m omnivorous.

  48. Day 48 Latent (adjective) Context clues: After just a few sessions with the psychiatrist, Andy’s latent fears started to come to the surface.

  49. Day 49 Quixotic (adjective) Context clues: When she turned eighteen, Savannah set out on a quixotic pursuit of roller skating fame.

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