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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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
 Word of the Day for Grade 9
Specified Day: 2026-06-22
ignitespeak speak spelling sentences 
v. kindle; cause to start burning; set fire to
After that no wood is used, except as a means of quick ignition to the staple fuel.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
The regiment was like a firework that, once ignited, proceeds superior to circumstances until its blazing vitality fades.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Like a plethoric burning martyr, or a self-consuming misanthrope, once ignited, the whale supplies his own fuel and burns by his own body.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
immigrantspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. one who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there; non-native
I knew this must be the immigrant family the conductor had told us about.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
Her father had started as a poor immigrant boy and had won the broad acres of Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
THIS is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
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Words of the recent 15 days
2026-06-19   (Back to the Day)
  hangar   Example sentences     speak
n. shelter especially for housing or repairing aircraft
  herbivorous   Example sentences     speak
a. grain-eating; plant-eating; feeding only on plants
2026-06-18   (Back to the Day)
  gauche   Example sentences     speak
a. awkward or lacking in social graces; coarse and uncouth
  gourmet   Example sentences     speak
n. person with discriminating taste in food and wine
  guileless   Example sentences     speak
a. free from deceit; sincere; honest
2026-06-17   (Back to the Day)
  fracas   Example sentences     speak
n. noisy, disorderly fight or quarrel; disturbance
  gambol   Example sentences     speak
v. dance and skip about in sport; leap playfully
2026-06-16   (Back to the Day)
  facet   Example sentences     speak
n. small, smooth, flat surface, as on a bone or tooth; side; a smooth surface
  flammable   Example sentences     speak
a. easily ignited and capable of burning rapidly; inflammable
  fluctuate   Example sentences     speak
v. rise and fall in or as if in waves; shift; vary irregularly
2026-06-15   (Back to the Day)
  enchant   Example sentences     speak
v. charm by sorcery; get control of by magical words and rites
  expletive   Example sentences     speak
n. interjection; word or phrase having no independent meaning; expression usually of surprise or anger
2026-06-12   (Back to the Day)
  doting   Example sentences     speak
a. weak-minded; foolishly loving and indulgent
  drench   Example sentences     speak
v. wet through and through; soak; put potion down throat of; steep in moisture; wet thoroughly
2026-06-11   (Back to the Day)
  devoid   Example sentences     speak
a. completely lacking; barren or empty
  disrupt   Example sentences     speak
v. upset; throw into confusion or disorder
  domesticate   Example sentences     speak
v. cultivate; make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
2026-06-10   (Back to the Day)
  dependable   Example sentences     speak
a. reliable; worthy of being depended on; trustworthy
  deplete   Example sentences     speak
v. decrease fullness of; use up or empty out
2026-06-09   (Back to the Day)
  confederate   Example sentences     speak
n. ally; form a group or unite
  corrode   Example sentences     speak
v. destroy metal or alloy gradually, especially by chemical action; be eaten or worn away
  dampen   Example sentences     speak
v. moisten; lessen in force or effect
2026-06-08   (Back to the Day)
  bonanza   Example sentences     speak
n. boom; rich mine, vein, or pocket of ore; sudden opportunity to make money
  boycott   Example sentences     speak
v. refrain from buying or using
2026-06-05   (Back to the Day)
  biennial   Example sentences     speak
a. every two years; lasting or living for two years
  boggle   Example sentences     speak
v. hesitate as if in fear or doubt; shy away or be overcome with fright or astonishment
2026-06-04   (Back to the Day)
  plummet   Example sentences     speak
v. fall straight down; plunge; decline suddenly and steeply
  archetype   Example sentences     speak
n. prototype; original model or type after which other similar things are patterned
  assemble   Example sentences     speak
v. put together; bring or call together into a group or whole
2026-06-03   (Back to the Day)
  scurry   Example sentences     speak
v. go with light running steps; move about or proceed hurriedly
  engulf   Example sentences     speak
v. absorb or swallow up as in a gulf; flow over or cover completely
2026-06-02   (Back to the Day)
  supervisor   Example sentences     speak
n. director; overseer; one who is in charge of a particular unit, as in government or school system
  deciduous   Example sentences     speak
a. falling off as of leaves; falling off or shed at specific season or stage of growth
  propel   Example sentences     speak
v. drive forward; cause to move forward or onward; push
2026-05-29   (Back to the Day)
  impecunious   Example sentences     speak
a. without money; poor; penniless
  atrophy   Example sentences     speak
n. wasting away; decrease in size; reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease
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