English Vocabulary · Grade 10 Live Review Preview
10th Grade Vocabulary Words
Tenth-grade reading asks learners to move confidently among literary analysis, argument, source evaluation, laboratory science, mathematics, computing, history, economics, psychology, philosophy, and the arts. This level emphasizes precise academic language, disciplinary meanings, connotation, word relationships, and the ability to interpret unfamiliar vocabulary in demanding context.
This independently authored 800-word beta curriculum is arranged in twenty-three pages of up to thirty-five words. Pages containing words 1–500 include five cloze questions drawn only from that enhanced range; words 501–800 remain fully visible and editable as list pages while expanded practice is developed. Every row includes an editable subject-field label and a conservative word-study note about transparent affixes, compound structure, capitalization, or dictionary base forms. The cited sources calibrate range and difficulty only; all learner-facing definitions, examples, quizzes, and descriptions are original KSSR copy.
Please note: the vocabulary lists for grades 9~11 have been selected to ensure no overlap with the previous grade level. If the words are too specialized or difficult for you, please go back to grade levels 4~8 and review the words on those pages.
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| # | Word | Details | Meaning | Sample sentence |
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| 141 | minor premise | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: minor + premise. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | បរិវេណតូចតាច | “A dolphin is a mammal” serves as the minor premise. |
| 142 | logical fallacy | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: logical + fallacy. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | ការភ័ន្តច្រឡំឡូជីខល | Treating popularity as proof of truth is a logical fallacy. |
| 143 | ad hominem | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: ad + hominem. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | អាទិទេព | Calling the scientist arrogant is an ad hominem response to her evidence. |
| 144 | straw man | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: straw + man. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | បុរសចំបើង | The speaker creates a straw man by claiming that any safety rule would ban all travel. |
| 145 | slippery slope | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: slippery + slope. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | ជម្រាលរអិល | The slippery slope predicts that one revised deadline will eliminate all standards. |
| 146 | circular reasoning | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: circular + reasoning. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | ហេតុផលរាងជារង្វង់ | “The rule is fair because it is a fair rule” is circular reasoning. |
| 147 | post hoc fallacy | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: post + hoc + fallacy. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | ហេតុផលខុសដោយសន្មតថា ក្រោយមកមានន័យថាបណ្តាលមកពីវា | Blaming a new logo for falling sales commits the post hoc fallacy. |
| 148 | appeal to authority | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: appeal + to + authority. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | អំពាវនាវដល់អាជ្ញាធរ | A celebrity's opinion about bridge safety is an appeal to authority. |
| 149 | bandwagon fallacy | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: bandwagon + fallacy. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | ភាពខុសឆ្គង bandwagon | The advertisement's bandwagon fallacy says the product must work because millions bought it. |
| 150 | red herring | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: red + herring. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | herring ក្រហម | The candidate's joke about uniforms is a red herring in a debate about school funding. |
| 151 | equivocation | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -ation commonly forms a noun naming an action, process, or result. | Equivocation | The argument uses equivocation by moving from a free sample to political freedom. |
| 152 | standard English | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: standard + English. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | ភាសាអង់គ្លេសស្តង់ដារ | The final report follows standard English while preserving quoted dialect. |
| 153 | semantic shift | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: semantic + shift. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | ការផ្លាស់ប្តូរអត្ថន័យ | The movement from “meat” meaning food generally to animal flesh is a semantic shift. |
| 154 | polysemy | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: polysemy is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context. | ប៉ូលីសេមី | The word branch shows polysemy in a tree branch, a bank branch, and a branch of science. |
| 155 | free morpheme | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: free + morpheme. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | morpheme ឥតគិតថ្លៃ | Book is a free morpheme in the word notebook. |
| 156 | bound morpheme | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: bound + morpheme. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | morpheme ចង | The prefix re is a bound morpheme in rewrite. |
| 157 | derivational morphology | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: derivational + morphology. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | សរីរវិទ្យាដេរីវេ | Derivational morphology changes teach into teacher. |
| 158 | inflectional morphology | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: inflectional + morphology. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | morphology inflectional | Inflectional morphology adds ed to walk to mark past time. |
| 159 | anagnorisis | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: anagnorisis is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context. | អាណាណូរីស | Oedipus reaches anagnorisis when he understands the truth about his birth. |
| 160 | stance marker | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: stance + marker. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | សញ្ញាសម្គាល់ជំហរ | The phrase in my view is a stance marker that openly identifies the writer's perspective. |
| 161 | hamartia | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: hamartia is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context. | ហាម៉ាធៀ | The king's refusal to listen becomes his hamartia. |
| 162 | dramatic structure | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: dramatic + structure. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | រចនាសម្ព័ន្ធយ៉ាងខ្លាំង | The playwright's dramatic structure delays the confrontation until the final act. |
| 163 | metadiscourse | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: metadiscourse is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context. | ភាសាណែនាំអ្នកអានអំពីរបៀបរៀបចំអត្ថបទ | The phrase as the next section demonstrates is metadiscourse that previews the argument's organization. |
| 164 | interdiscursivity | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -ity commonly forms a noun naming a quality, state, or condition. | អន្តរកម្ម | A campaign video shows interdiscursivity by combining news reporting, personal testimony, and advertising. |
| 165 | genre convention | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: genre + convention. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | អនុសញ្ញាប្រភេទ | The detective novel follows a genre convention by withholding one crucial clue until the final chapter. |
| 166 | fragmented narrative | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: fragmented + narrative. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | ការនិទានរឿងដែលបែកខ្ញែក | The fragmented narrative moves among memories, interviews, and newspaper clippings. |
| 167 | authorial intrusion | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: authorial + intrusion. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | ការឈ្លានពានរបស់អាជ្ញាធរ | The narrator's warning to judge no character too quickly is an authorial intrusion. |
| 168 | zero focalization | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: zero + focalization. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | ការផ្តោតអារម្មណ៍សូន្យ | Zero focalization allows the novel to reveal both armies' secret plans. |
| 169 | internal focalization | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: internal + focalization. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | ការផ្តោតអារម្មណ៍ផ្ទៃក្នុង | Internal focalization limits the scene to what Amara sees and understands. |
| 170 | external focalization | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: external + focalization. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit. | ការផ្តោតអារម្មណ៍ខាងក្រៅ | External focalization makes the stranger's motives remain uncertain. |
| 171 | prolepsis | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: prolepsis is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context. | Prolepsis | A brief prolepsis shows the abandoned house twenty years after the family leaves. |
| 172 | analepsis | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: analepsis is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context. | អាណាឡិបស៊ីស | The survivor's childhood memory appears through analepsis. |
| 173 | fabula | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: fabula is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context. | អស្ចារ្យ | Readers reconstruct the fabula by placing the novel's scattered scenes in time order. |
| 174 | syuzhet | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: syuzhet is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context. | 1. លំដាប់នៃការនិទានរឿង 2. syuzhet | The syuzhet begins with the verdict and reveals the crime afterward. |
| 175 | defamiliarization | noun StudyField: Grade 10 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -ization forms a noun for a process of making or becoming. | ការធ្វើឱ្យរឿងធម្មតាមើលទៅចម្លែក និងថ្មី | Describing a clock as a machine that slices time creates defamiliarization. |
Vocabulary reading and practice
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Sources and curriculum references
These references guide selection and calibration. Definitions, sample sentences, readings, questions, and teaching notes are independently written and reviewed.
- Common Core: Language Standards for Grades 9–10
- OpenStax: Biology 2e
- OpenStax: Chemistry 2e
- OpenStax: Algebra and Trigonometry 2e
- OpenStax: World History, Volume 2
- OpenStax: Psychology 2e
- OpenStax: Introduction to Philosophy
- WikDict downloadable bilingual dictionaries
- Kaikki.org / Wiktextract machine-readable Wiktionary data
- Language-Learning-decks public flashcard datasets
- SBBIC English-to-Khmer Dictionary
- English–Khmer Dictionary Dataset (machine-generated Khmer fallback; human review required)
- PanLex meanings snapshot (direct CC0 gap candidates; human review required)
- Cambridge bilingual dictionaries (individual editorial sense checks)
- Collins English–Hindi Dictionary (individual editorial checks)
- Hindwi and Rekhta dictionaries (individual Hindi/Urdu checks)
- National Institute of Korean Language: Basic Korean Dictionary
- JMdict/EDRDG Japanese dictionary project
- CC-CEDICT Chinese dictionary project
- VDict Vietnamese Dictionary (individual editorial check)
- Google Translate (machine-assisted lesson-reading draft; fluent review required)
- Kuperman et al.: Age-of-acquisition ratings for 30,000 English words
- The Princeton Review, Word Smart: Building an Educated Vocabulary (Privately Owned KSSR Materials; bibliographic calibration only).

