8th Grade Words of the Day

This Words for the Day webpage helps grade 8 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 8th-grade students to get words and their meanings, examples, and context sources.

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Animal Farm by George Orwell
 Word of the Day for Grade 8
Specified Day: 2026-03-05
mediaspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. public institutions that report the news, such as newspapers, radio, and tv
despondentspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. unhappy and with no hope or enthusiasm
All I see has made me thankful, not despondent.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Your habitual expression in those days, Jane, was a thoughtful look; not despondent, for you were not sickly; but not buoyant, for you had little hope, and no actual pleasure.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
The fresh winds blew away desponding doubts, delusive fancies, and moody mists.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
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Words of the recent 15 days
2026-03-04   (Back to the Day)
  penitentiary   Example sentences     speak
n. state or federal prison for convicted felons
  exhilaration   Example sentences     speak
n. feeling of excitement and happiness
2026-03-03   (Back to the Day)
  whirlpool   Example sentences     speak
n. a powerful circular current of water, usually the result of conflicting tides
  harass   Example sentences     speak
v. annoy or trouble someone repeatedly; torment persistently
2026-03-02   (Back to the Day)
  specialist   Example sentences     speak
n. someone who has a lot of experience, knowledge, or skill in a particular subject
n. a doctor who has special training in a particular area of medicine
  interrogation   Example sentences     speak
n. a process of asking someone questions for a long time to get information
n. formal systematic questioning
2026-02-27   (Back to the Day)
  semicircle   Example sentences     speak
n. half of a circle, or something in this shape
  embarrass   Example sentences     speak
v. cause someone to feel nervous, worried, or uncomfortable
2026-02-26   (Back to the Day)
  metropolitan   Example sentences     speak
a. city center; one who lives in a city center
  advertise   Example sentences     speak
v. give notice to; make something known in public, especially to sell it
2026-02-25   (Back to the Day)
  bacteria   Example sentences     speak
n. very small organisms that are found everywhere and are the cause of many diseases
  pendant   Example sentences     speak
n. ornament, hanging from a necklace; a piece of jewellery worn around the neck
2026-02-24   (Back to the Day)
  exotic   Example sentences     speak
a. from another part of the world; foreign; strikingly strange or unusual
  intermission   Example sentences     speak
n. a short period between the parts of a play or concert; interval during which there is a temporary cessation
2026-02-23   (Back to the Day)
  dictation   Example sentences     speak
n. action of saying words aloud to be typed or written down
n. action of giving orders authoritatively
  precipitation   Example sentences     speak
n. water that falls from the clouds towards the ground, especially as rain or snow
n. the quantity of water falling to earth
2026-02-20   (Back to the Day)
  preoccupation   Example sentences     speak
n. an idea that someone thinks about most of the time
n. state of being worried about or thinking about something most of the time
  initiation   Example sentences     speak
n. an occasion when something starts
2026-02-19   (Back to the Day)
  constellation   Example sentences     speak
n. a group of stars in the sky that appear to form a pattern and that have a name
n. a group of famous people all together in one place
  dictator   Example sentences     speak
n. a leader who has complete power in a country and has not been elected by the people
2026-02-18   (Back to the Day)
  tournament   Example sentences     speak
n. sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner; contest
  disrespect   Example sentences     speak
n. lack of respect for
2026-02-17   (Back to the Day)
  pendulum   Example sentences     speak
n. a body suspended from fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum
  mosquito   Example sentences     speak
n. two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans
2026-02-16   (Back to the Day)
  intermittent   Example sentences     speak
a. periodic; on and off; stopping and starting at intervals
  vacuum   Example sentences     speak
n. empty area or space; a space from which most or all of the matter has been removed
n. electrical home appliance that cleans by suction
2026-02-13   (Back to the Day)
  geology   Example sentences     speak
n. science which treats the structure and mineral constitution of the globe
  induction   Example sentences     speak
n. a formal entry into an organization, position, or office
n. act of causing an event or process to happen
2026-02-12   (Back to the Day)
  antecedent   Example sentences     speak
n. someone from whom you are descended, but usually more remote than a grandparent
n. a word or phrase that a pronoun refers back to
  complement   Example sentences     speak
v. make something else seem better or more attractive when combining with it
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