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: 2025-04-23
scufflespeak speak spelling sentences 
v. shuffle; fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters; wrestle in a rough fashion
His whole existence was a scuffle.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC
I heard oaths and the confused sounds of a scuffle.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
The youth and his friend had a small scuffle over the flag.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
fissurespeak speak spelling sentences 
n. long narrow opening ; long narrow depression in surface
The fissure is about a foot across.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
As the blankets yielded before the outward pressure, and the branches settled in the fissure of the rock by their own weight, forming a compact body, Duncan once more breathed freely.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
Now the other side presented itself to Lily, the volcanic nether side of the surface over which conjecture and innuendo glide so lightly till the first fissure turns their whisper to a shriek.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
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Words of the recent 15 days
2025-04-22   (Back to the Day)
  stuffy   speakExamples  
a. stout; lacking sufficient ventilation; close; dull and boring
  sift   speakExamples  
v. separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the course; examine critically or minutely; scrutinize
  retrieve   speakExamples  
v. recover; find and bring in; get back
2025-04-21   (Back to the Day)
  impede   speakExamples  
v. hinder; charge with improper conduct; challenge validity of; try to discredit
  reinforce   speakExamples  
v. give more force or effectiveness to; strengthen; enhance
2025-04-18   (Back to the Day)
  rampant   speakExamples  
a. unrestrained and violent; occurring without restraint
  canary   speakExamples  
n. pale yellowish color; wine made in the Canary Islands; canary bird; quick and lively dance
2025-04-17   (Back to the Day)
  oligarchy   speakExamples  
n. government by a few persons, especially by a small faction of persons or families
  shred   speakExamples  
n. a small amount; a long, narrow piece cut or torn off; long irregular strip that is cut or torn off
  fuse   speakExamples  
v. combine; blend; become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat
2025-04-16   (Back to the Day)
  baffle   speakExamples  
v. frustrate as by confusing or perplexing; impede force or movement of
  discard   speakExamples  
v. throw out something from one's hand; get rid of
2025-04-15   (Back to the Day)
  stench   speakExamples  
n. strong, foul odor; stink; foul quality; offensive odor
  prodigy   speakExamples  
n. person with exceptional talents or powers; wonder
  tentative   speakExamples  
a. hesitant; not fully worked out or developed; experimental; not definite or positive
2025-04-14   (Back to the Day)
  babble   speakExamples  
v. talk foolishly or idly; utter meaningless confusion of words or sounds
  agile   speakExamples  
a. moving quickly and lightly; mentally quick
2025-04-11   (Back to the Day)
  coincide   speakExamples  
v. occur at the same time as; correspond
  imperturbable   speakExamples  
a. unshakably calm; placid; incapable of being disturbed or disconcerted
2025-04-10   (Back to the Day)
  outstanding   speakExamples  
a. distinguished from others in excellence
  drab   speakExamples  
a. dull; lacking color; lacking in liveliness, charm, or surprise
  rigor   speakExamples  
n. strictness or severity, as in temperament, action, or judgment; something hard to endure
2025-04-09   (Back to the Day)
  fraudulent   speakExamples  
a. cheating; deceitful; planning or using fraud; given to practice of fraud
  approximate   speakExamples  
v. come close or be similar to something in quality, nature, or quantity; come near
2025-04-08   (Back to the Day)
  fluent   speakExamples  
a. easy and graceful in shape; graceful; smooth and unconstrained in movement
  brittle   speakExamples  
a. easily broken; having little elasticity
  ostrich   speakExamples  
n. large bird of the genus Struthio
2025-04-07   (Back to the Day)
  fiber   speakExamples  
n. slender, elongated, threadlike object or structure; material to make paper or cloth
  visual   speakExamples  
a. seen or able to be seen by the eye; visible; optical
2025-04-04   (Back to the Day)
  raillery   speakExamples  
n. pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment
  elude   speakExamples  
v. avoid cleverly; escape perception of
2025-04-03   (Back to the Day)
  revolve   speakExamples  
v. turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; rotate; move in curved path round a center; pass in cycles
  endanger   speakExamples  
v. threaten; jeopardize; do something that may damage it or destroy it
  recount   speakExamples  
v. narrate or tell; count over again
2025-04-02   (Back to the Day)
  duplicate   speakExamples  
n. one that corresponds exactly to another, especially an original; identical copy; facsimile
  progeny   speakExamples  
n. one derived from another; offspring or descendant; result of creative effort, as product
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