9th Grade Words of the Day

This Words for the Day webpage helps grade 9 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 9th-grade students to get words and their meanings, examples, and context sources.

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 Word of the Day for Grade 9
Specified Day: 2025-02-14
craftyspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. relating to, or characterized by, skill; dexterous; skillful
In the end he deemed it best to be crafty with him, so in this mind he went up to his father, who was bending down and digging about a plant.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXIV
When he had thus announced his liberal intention, the crafty chief arose, and gravely spread his presents before the dazzled eyes of his hosts.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
I recollect well how indignantly my heart beat, as I saw his crafty face, with the appropriately red light of the fire upon it, preparing for something else.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
financespeak speak spelling sentences 
n. management of money and credit and banking and investments; subsidizing; fund
Secular and religious education had effaced the throat-grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Father agreed to finance me for a year and after various delays I came east, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
He talked only of the obvious and tedious aspects; never of his aspirations in finance, nor of the mechanical principles of motors.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Review Words:   Rrecent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2025-02-13   (Back to the Day)
  reliable   speakExamples  
a. worthy of being depended on; trustworthy
  lash   speakExamples  
n. any of the short hairs fringing the edge of the eyelid
  myth   speakExamples  
n. legend; fable; a traditional story accepted as history
2025-02-12   (Back to the Day)
  economical   speakExamples  
a. thrifty; saving; using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness
  circumference   speakExamples  
n. boundary line of a circle, figure, area, or object
2025-02-11   (Back to the Day)
  morsel   speakExamples  
n. a little bite or bit of food; a small quantity; a little piece; a fragment
  inhabit   speakExamples  
v. live in; occupy; reside in
  dexterity   speakExamples  
n. right-handedness; readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts
2025-02-10   (Back to the Day)
  ensure   speakExamples  
v. make sure or certain; insure; assure
  chant   speakExamples  
v. utter with a melodious voice; celebrate in song; make melody with the voice
2025-02-07   (Back to the Day)
  drowsy   speakExamples  
a. dull with sleepiness; showing lack of attention
  blunt   speakExamples  
a. having a dull edge or end; not sharp; lacking in feeling; insensitive
2025-02-06   (Back to the Day)
  implore   speakExamples  
v. beg for urgently; make an earnest appeal
  blunder   speakExamples  
n. serious mistake typically caused by ignorance or confusion
  persist   speakExamples  
v. continue; insist; persevere
2025-02-05   (Back to the Day)
  feat   speakExamples  
n. an achievement that requires great courage, skill, or strength; accomplishment
  adorn   speakExamples  
v. enhance or decorate with or as if with ornaments
2025-02-04   (Back to the Day)
  digest   speakExamples  
v. break down; make more concise; convert food into absorbable substances
  peninsula   speakExamples  
n. a piece of land almost completely surrounded by water but joined to a larger mass of land
  convict   speakExamples  
v. find or declare guilty
2025-02-03   (Back to the Day)
  provoke   speakExamples  
v. stir to anger; give rise to; stir to action or feeling
  colossal   speakExamples  
a. of extraordinary size; huge; gigantic
2025-01-31   (Back to the Day)
  interpret   speakExamples  
v. explain or tell the meaning of; translate orally; decipher
  dismiss   speakExamples  
v. stop considering; end employment or service of; discharge; refuse to accept or recognize
2025-01-30   (Back to the Day)
  grudge   speakExamples  
v. be unwilling or reluctant to give or admit; be envious; show discontent
  anticipate   speakExamples  
v. act in advance of; deal with ahead of time; predict
  detain   speakExamples  
v. keep back or from; withhold; restrain from proceeding; stay or stop; delay
2025-01-29   (Back to the Day)
  diminish   speakExamples  
v. dwindle; reduce; make smaller or less or to cause to appear so
  omit   speakExamples  
v. leave undone or leave out ; bypass; neglect; fail to include or mention
2025-01-28   (Back to the Day)
  ferocious   speakExamples  
a. fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty
  soothe   speakExamples  
v. cause to feel better; give moral or emotional strength to
  expanse   speakExamples  
n. patch; wide and open extent, as of surface, land, or sky
2025-01-27   (Back to the Day)
  deputy   speakExamples  
n. one appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him; substitute in office
  commend   speakExamples  
v. commit, entrust, or give in charge for care or preservation; recommend as worthy of confidence or regard
2025-01-24   (Back to the Day)
  bluff   speakExamples  
n. pretense of strength; mislead or deceive
  fuss   speakExamples  
n. angry disturbance; excited state of agitation; needlessly nervous or useless activity; protest; quarrel
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