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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Word of the Day for Grade 8
Specified Day: 2025-12-23
There is no new word today!
Every weekend, the first day of each month, winter break (Dec 23 to Jan 6), and summer (part of July and all of August) are word-free days.
Today has no new words, but you can review the recent ones from 2025-12-22.
| contradict |     |
v. deny the truth of a statement, especially by asserting the opposite; confront
| elastic | |
a. springing back; able to return quickly to a former state or condition
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2025-12-22 (Back to the Day)
contradict 
v. deny the truth of a statement, especially by asserting the opposite; confront
elastic
a. springing back; able to return quickly to a former state or condition
2025-12-19 (Back to the Day)
literal
a. according to the letter or verbal expression; exactly as stated
novelist
n. one who writes novels
2025-12-18 (Back to the Day)
thermometer
n. instrument for measuring temperature
commotion
n. a sudden, short period of noise, confusion, or excited movement
2025-12-17 (Back to the Day)
impartial
a. fair; showing lack of favoritism
ancestor
n. a person related to you who lived a long time ago; forefather, forerunner, or predecessor
2025-12-16 (Back to the Day)
strait
n. a narrow area of sea that connects two larger areas of sea
a. narrow or not broad
a. narrow or not broad
predecessor
n. former occupant of post; ancestor or forefather
2025-12-15 (Back to the Day)
regulate
v. control something, especially by making it work in a particular way; fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
pavilion
n. a large building in which sports or entertainments take place
2025-12-12 (Back to the Day)
adventurous
a. willing to try new or difficult things; willing to engage in adventures
exaggeration
n. act of making something more noticeable than it really is; overstatement
2025-12-11 (Back to the Day)
cemetery
n. place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; graveyard
superintendent
n. a person who is in charge of work done in a particular department or office
n. janitor or custodian in a building
n. janitor or custodian in a building
2025-12-10 (Back to the Day)
concession
n. something that is allowed or given up, often to end a disagreement; act of yielding
operate
v. be in action or have an effect
v. cut a body open to fix an unhealthy or damaged part
v. cut a body open to fix an unhealthy or damaged part
2025-12-09 (Back to the Day)
perpendicular
a. vertical or upright; intersecting at or forming right angles; extremely steep
laboratory
n. a workplace for the conduct of scientific research
2025-12-08 (Back to the Day)
vertical
a. upright in position or posture
mathematics
n. science dealing with the logic of quantity and shape
2025-12-05 (Back to the Day)
spectator
n. observer or audience; one who looks on
bachelor
n. the first or lowest academic degree from colleges
n. unmarried man
n. unmarried man
2025-12-04 (Back to the Day)
musician
n. artist who composes or conducts music as a profession
cowardice
n. lack of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; lack of spirit
2025-12-03 (Back to the Day)
combine
v. join together to make a single thing or group; blend, fuse, or merge
merchandise
n. goods that are bought and sold
2025-12-02 (Back to the Day)
discontinue
v. stop doing or providing something; put an end to a state or an activity
procedure
n. act or manner of moving forward; steps taken in an action