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: 2025-10-23
calculatespeak speak spelling sentences 
v. compute; determine; estimate
She would not calculate, she would not compare.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
We calculate it will scarcely last till it is eighteen.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
They calculate the year by the revolution of the sun and moon, but use no subdivisions into weeks.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IX.
crisisspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. dangerous situation; crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point
I saw that a crisis was at hand, and it came.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
That I retired to bed in a most maudlin state of mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
The sergeant and I were in the kitchen when Mrs. Joe stood staring; at which crisis I partially recovered the use of my senses.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
affectspeak speak spelling sentences 
v. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
This did not affect Sergey Ivanovitch in the slightest.
Anna Karenina(V3) By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 5
Levin felt so resolute and serene that no answer, he fancied, could affect him.
Anna Karenina(V1) By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 15
She was religious, had never doubted the truths of religion, but his external unbelief did not affect her in the least.
Anna Karenina(V2) By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 16
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Words of the recent 15 days
2025-10-22   (Back to the Day)
  uneasy   speakExamples  
a. not easy; difficult; restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety
  vivid   speakExamples  
a. bright; lively; graphic; having striking color
2025-10-21   (Back to the Day)
  anguish   speakExamples  
n. agonizing physical or mental pain; extreme suffering
  discharge   speakExamples  
v. relieve of a burden or of contents; unload; pour forth or release; complete or carry out; give off
  foul   speakExamples  
n. act that violates of the rules of a sport
2025-10-20   (Back to the Day)
  alter   speakExamples  
v. modify; cause to change; make different; convert
  contract   speakExamples  
v. constrict; make smaller; compress or concentrate
2025-10-17   (Back to the Day)
  vital   speakExamples  
a. full of life; animated; necessary to continued existence; living or breathing
  envy   speakExamples  
n. malice; ill will; discontent or uneasiness at another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with hatred
2025-10-16   (Back to the Day)
  effective   speakExamples  
a. efficient; productive; producing a strong impression or response
  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
2025-10-15   (Back to the Day)
  dispute   speakExamples  
n. argument; angry altercation; quarrel; verbal controversy; debate
  employ   speakExamples  
v. engage the services of; put to work; apply
2025-10-14   (Back to the Day)
  occasional   speakExamples  
a. random; occurring from time to time; infrequent
  neglect   speakExamples  
v. disregard; ignore; pay little or no attention to
  establish   speakExamples  
v. set up or found; build
2025-10-13   (Back to the Day)
  monarch   speakExamples  
n. king; sole and absolute ruler; sovereign, such as a king or empress
  defect   speakExamples  
v. abandon or turn against; cease or change one's loyalty
2025-10-10   (Back to the Day)
  deadly   speakExamples  
a. fatal; lethal; causing or tending to cause death
  reserve   speakExamples  
n. lack of enthusiasm; skeptical caution; something saved for future use; self-restraint in expression
2025-10-09   (Back to the Day)
  gallant   speakExamples  
a. courtly; lively and spirited; having or displaying great dignity or nobility
  prey   speakExamples  
n. target of a hunt; animal hunted or caught for food
  extensive   speakExamples  
a. widespread; far-reaching; wide
2025-10-08   (Back to the Day)
  estimate   speakExamples  
v. judge to be probable; form an opinion about; evaluate
  sincere   speakExamples  
a. open and genuine; not deceitful; pure; unmixed
2025-10-07   (Back to the Day)
  assist   speakExamples  
v. give help or support to, especially as a subordinate
  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
2025-10-06   (Back to the Day)
  feeble   speakExamples  
a. lacking vigor, force, or effectiveness; faint; frail
  foe   speakExamples  
n. enemy; one who entertains hatred, grudge; adversary
2025-10-03   (Back to the Day)
  vanity   speakExamples  
n. quality or state of being vain; emptiness; feelings of excessive pride; conceit
  suitable   speakExamples  
a. appropriate to a purpose or an occasion
2025-10-02   (Back to the Day)
  ceremony   speakExamples  
n. formal act or set of acts performed as prescribed by ritual or custom
  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
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