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: 2025-07-07
skepticspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. doubter; person who suspends judgment until evidence has been examined
His voice was soft but there was a vibrant note in it, and looking up into his dark face she saw in it none of the skepticism, the jeering humor she knew so well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Suddenly I wasn't thinking of Daisy and Gatsby any more but of this clean, hard, limited person who dealt in universal skepticism and who leaned back jauntily just within the circle of my arm.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
slackenspeak speak spelling sentences 
v. become slower; loosen; become less vigorous, intense, or severe
As if by agreement, the leaders began to slacken their speed.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
It was already beginning to slacken, with a slack sort of thinness, almost withered, going old before it had ever really lived.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
I hailed her, but could get no answer; yet I found I gained upon her, for the wind slackened.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
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Words of the recent 15 days
2025-07-04   (Back to the Day)
  scrumptious   speakExamples  
a. nice; particular; fastidious; excellent; fine
  sheathe   speakExamples  
v. enclose with protective covering; encase; cover up or hide
2025-07-03   (Back to the Day)
  retreat   speakExamples  
n. receding; pull back or move away or backward; withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position
  rodent   speakExamples  
n. gnawing; biting; corroding; any of various mammals of rodent, such as a mouse, rat, squirrel,
  rotate   speakExamples  
v. plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; swirl; revolve; turn on or around an axis or a center
2025-07-02   (Back to the Day)
  reconnaissance   speakExamples  
n. gain information about enemy; inspection or exploration of an area
  repatriate   speakExamples  
v. restore or return to the country of birth, citizenship, or origin
2025-06-30   (Back to the Day)
  rampage   speakExamples  
n. violent or riotous behavior; state of excitement, passion, or debauchery
  ration   speakExamples  
n. allotment; allowance; portion; allot; distribute in rations
2025-06-27   (Back to the Day)
  protrude   speakExamples  
v. extend out or project in space; stick out
  quixotic   speakExamples  
a. idealistic without regard to practicality
2025-06-26   (Back to the Day)
  plagiarize   speakExamples  
v. steal another's ideas and pass them off as one's own
  poncho   speakExamples  
n. a kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through
  proliferate   speakExamples  
v. grow rapidly; propagate; reproduce
2025-06-25   (Back to the Day)
  ozone   speakExamples  
n. unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen
  pesky   speakExamples  
a. pestering; vexatious; troublesome; causing irritation or annoyance
2025-06-24   (Back to the Day)
  inhibit   speakExamples  
v. restrain; prevent or forbid; hold back
  landslide   speakExamples  
n. slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff; overwhelming electoral victory
  outmoded   speakExamples  
a. no longer usable or practical; obsolete; not in fashion
2025-06-23   (Back to the Day)
  inept   speakExamples  
a. lacking of judgment, sense, or reason; unsuited; inappropriate; foolish
  inflate   speakExamples  
v. expand; fill with air or gas; increase the amount or availability of
2025-06-20   (Back to the Day)
  ignite   speakExamples  
v. kindle; cause to start burning; set fire to
  immigrant   speakExamples  
n. one who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there; non-native
2025-06-19   (Back to the Day)
  guileless   speakExamples  
a. free from deceit; sincere; honest
  hangar   speakExamples  
n. shelter especially for housing or repairing aircraft
  herbivorous   speakExamples  
a. grain-eating; plant-eating; feeding only on plants
2025-06-18   (Back to the Day)
  gauche   speakExamples  
a. awkward or lacking in social graces; coarse and uncouth
  gourmet   speakExamples  
n. person with discriminating taste in food and wine
2025-06-17   (Back to the Day)
  fluctuate   speakExamples  
v. rise and fall in or as if in waves; shift; vary irregularly
  fracas   speakExamples  
n. noisy, disorderly fight or quarrel; disturbance
  gambol   speakExamples  
v. dance and skip about in sport; leap playfully
2025-06-16   (Back to the Day)
  facet   speakExamples  
n. small, smooth, flat surface, as on a bone or tooth; side; a smooth surface
  flammable   speakExamples  
a. easily ignited and capable of burning rapidly; inflammable
2025-06-13   (Back to the Day)
  enchant   speakExamples  
v. charm by sorcery; get control of by magical words and rites
  expletive   speakExamples  
n. interjection; word or phrase having no independent meaning; expression usually of surprise or anger
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