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: 2024-10-21
contractspeak speak spelling sentences 
v. constrict; make smaller; compress or concentrate
The contract was read during a profound silence.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 96. The Contract.
They were about to proceed to the reading of the contract, which half Paris assembled was to sign.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 96. The Contract.
So now, as an infallible way of making little ease great ease, I began to contract a quantity of debt.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIV
anguishspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. agonizing physical or mental pain; extreme suffering
My own agitation and anguish was extreme during the whole trial.
Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
He was conveyed home, and the anguish that was visible in my countenance betrayed the secret to Elizabeth.
Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
No one can conceive the anguish I suffered during the remainder of the night, which I spent, cold and wet, in the open air.
Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
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Words of the recent 15 days
2024-10-18   (Back to the Day)
  envy   speakExamples  
n. malice; ill will; discontent or uneasiness at another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with hatred
  alter   speakExamples  
v. modify; cause to change; make different; convert
2024-10-17   (Back to the Day)
  temporary   speakExamples  
a. not permanent; lasting for only a limited period of time
  pursue   speakExamples  
v. follow in; go in search of or hunt for
  vital   speakExamples  
a. full of life; animated; necessary to continued existence; living or breathing
2024-10-16   (Back to the Day)
  employ   speakExamples  
v. engage the services of; put to work; apply
  effective   speakExamples  
a. efficient; productive; producing a strong impression or response
2024-10-15   (Back to the Day)
  neglect   speakExamples  
v. disregard; ignore; pay little or no attention to
  establish   speakExamples  
v. set up or found; build
  dispute   speakExamples  
n. argument; angry altercation; quarrel; verbal controversy; debate
2024-10-14   (Back to the Day)
  defect   speakExamples  
v. abandon or turn against; cease or change one's loyalty
  occasional   speakExamples  
a. random; occurring from time to time; infrequent
2024-10-11   (Back to the Day)
  reserve   speakExamples  
n. lack of enthusiasm; skeptical caution; something saved for future use; self-restraint in expression
  monarch   speakExamples  
n. king; sole and absolute ruler; sovereign, such as a king or empress
2024-10-10   (Back to the Day)
  prey   speakExamples  
n. target of a hunt; animal hunted or caught for food
  extensive   speakExamples  
a. widespread; far-reaching; wide
  deadly   speakExamples  
a. fatal; lethal; causing or tending to cause death
2024-10-09   (Back to the Day)
  sincere   speakExamples  
a. open and genuine; not deceitful; pure; unmixed
  gallant   speakExamples  
a. courtly; lively and spirited; having or displaying great dignity or nobility
2024-10-08   (Back to the Day)
  positive   speakExamples  
a. involving advantage or good ; greater than zero; very sure; confident
  conceal   speakExamples  
v. keep from being seen, found, observed, or discovered; secrete
  estimate   speakExamples  
v. judge to be probable; form an opinion about; evaluate
2024-10-07   (Back to the Day)
  foe   speakExamples  
n. enemy; one who entertains hatred, grudge; adversary
  assist   speakExamples  
v. give help or support to, especially as a subordinate
2024-10-04   (Back to the Day)
  suitable   speakExamples  
a. appropriate to a purpose or an occasion
  feeble   speakExamples  
a. lacking vigor, force, or effectiveness; faint; frail
2024-10-03   (Back to the Day)
  genuine   speakExamples  
a. authentic; sincerely and honestly felt or experienced; real or true
  solitary   speakExamples  
a. isolated; existing, living, or going without others; alone; unaccompanied
  vanity   speakExamples  
n. quality or state of being vain; emptiness; feelings of excessive pride; conceit
2024-10-02   (Back to the Day)
  dwell   speakExamples  
v. live as a resident; exist in a given place or state
  ceremony   speakExamples  
n. formal act or set of acts performed as prescribed by ritual or custom
2024-09-30   (Back to the Day)
  supreme   speakExamples  
a. most outstanding; highest; superior
  apt   speakExamples  
a. likely; exactly suitable; appropriate; quick to learn or understand
2024-09-27   (Back to the Day)
  poverty   speakExamples  
n. lack of money; state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts
  lofty   speakExamples  
a. high, tall, having great height; idealistic, implying over-optimism
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