How the list and the board work

This page holds a vocabulary list for 11th grade. Each word is shown with its pronunciation, its part of speech, a plain meaning and an example sentence, so you can read the whole entry without hunting down a separate dictionary. Tap Play this list and the board serves words from this same list, so what you study here is what you actually get asked to guess.

We are still building this list from documented sources, so the words you see will keep expanding. Nothing here claims to be an official state list or a Common Core list. It's a working vocabulary set for 11th grade level reading and writing, not a fixed, finished catalog.

A few words from the list

These four are examples to show the format. The full list has more, and it keeps growing as we add to it.

A few example sentences:

• "The witness gave an ambiguous answer, and the lawyers argued over what it meant."
• "She chose to persevere through the last chapter even when the reading got dense."
• "The essay praised the character's integrity in the face of pressure to lie."
• "A resilient economy recovers faster after a downturn than a fragile one."

These four are examples only, not today's board. The board draws from the wider list, so what you actually see there will vary.

Tips for using the list

Read the example before the meaning. Try to guess what a word means from its sentence first, then check the definition. It's closer to how you meet new words in a real text.

Say it out loud. The pronunciation guide is there to use. A word that trips you up on paper often clicks once you hear yourself say it.

Group words by how you'd use them. Some of these fit an essay's argument, like persevere or integrity. Others fit an essay's analysis, like ambiguous or resilient. Sorting them that way makes them easier to recall when you're actually writing.

Play the board after reading, not instead of it. The list gives you the meaning up front, so playing the board becomes a way to practice a word you've already met, not the first time you see it.

For teachers and parents

This list works as a short warm-up before a reading or writing lesson: five minutes with four or five words, said aloud, each used in a sentence of the student's own. It also prints cleanly if you want a paper copy for a study group or a take-home sheet.

Because the list isn't tied to a specific curriculum, it pairs with whatever reading list or exam prep a class or student is already using. Add in words a student is genuinely struggling with, and use the board version once a week as a low-stakes check rather than a test.

More vocabulary practice

For the year ahead, see 12th grade vocabulary, or browse the full vocabulary hub for every list. If you're prepping for a specific exam, SAT vocabulary covers that word set on its own, and the vocabulary quiz is a quick way to check what's sticking.