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: 2025-09-19
fatalspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. causing death; leading to failure or disaster
Estella, dearest Estella, do not let Miss Havisham lead you into this fatal step.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIV
I have seen it, Herbert, and dreamed of it, ever since the fatal night of his arrival.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLI
I dared not ask the fatal question, but I was known, and the officer guessed the cause of my visit.
Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
renderspeak speak spelling sentences 
v. deliver;give or make available; provide; represent in a drawing or painting
Miserable himself that he may render no other wretched, he ought to die.
Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
You may render me the most miserable of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes.
Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
This faith gives a solemnity to his reveries that render them to me almost as imposing and interesting as truth.
Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
Review Words:   Recent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2025-09-18   (Back to the Day)
  misery   Example sentences     speak
n. great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind
  attend   Example sentences     speak
v. be present at; go to; take care of; tend
  proceed   Example sentences     speak
n. follow a certain course; move ahead; travel onward
2025-09-17   (Back to the Day)
  reign   Example sentences     speak
n. sovereignty; rule; dominance or widespread influence
  humble   Example sentences     speak
a. low or inferior in station or quality; modest
2025-09-16   (Back to the Day)
  consent   Example sentences     speak
v. agree in opinion or sentiment; be of the same mind; accord; concur; allow
  eternal   Example sentences     speak
a. forever; being without beginning or end; existing outside of time; infinite
  expedition   Example sentences     speak
n. journey organized for a particular purpose
2025-09-15   (Back to the Day)
  volume   Example sentences     speak
n. capacity; amount of space occupied by an object
  ruin   Example sentences     speak
v. fall or tumble down; destroy; devastate; exterminate
2025-09-12   (Back to the Day)
  ease   Example sentences     speak
n. satisfaction; pleasure; entertainment; freedom from care
  extreme   Example sentences     speak
a. outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit
2025-09-11   (Back to the Day)
  policy   Example sentences     speak
n. settled method of government to administer; system of public or official administration
  capable   Example sentences     speak
a. having the ability required for a specific task
  despair   Example sentences     speak
n. loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency
2025-09-10   (Back to the Day)
  previous   Example sentences     speak
a. existing or occurring before something else
  faithful   Example sentences     speak
a. given with strong assurance; firm in adherence to promises or in observance of duty
2025-09-09   (Back to the Day)
  sympathy   Example sentences     speak
n. compassion; pity; feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune
  affection   Example sentences     speak
n. fondness; tender feeling toward another; fondness
  content   Example sentences     speak
n. volume; something contained; material, including text and images
2025-09-08   (Back to the Day)
  consequence   Example sentences     speak
n. result; relation of a result to its cause; logical conclusion or inference
  genius   Example sentences     speak
n. exceptional creative ability; unusual mental ability; someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
2025-09-05   (Back to the Day)
  numerous   Example sentences     speak
a. many; various; amounting to a large indefinite number
  slight   Example sentences     speak
n. almost no; very little; deliberate discourtesy
2025-09-04   (Back to the Day)
  obtain   Example sentences     speak
v. get hold of; gain possession of; acquire, in any way
  peculiar   Example sentences     speak
a. special; characteristic; unusual; odd; bizarre
  portion   Example sentences     speak
n. section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole
2025-09-03   (Back to the Day)
  distribute   Example sentences     speak
v. hand out; disseminate; allocate
  vast   Example sentences     speak
a. large; broad; extensive; very great in size, number, amount, or quantity
2025-09-02   (Back to the Day)
  desire   Example sentences     speak
n. a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen
  mere   Example sentences     speak
a. being nothing more than what is specified; considered apart from anything else; small; slight
  permission   Example sentences     speak
n. consent; approval to do something
Below words are in grade 8
2025-06-27   (Back to the Day)
  wildebeest   Example sentences     speak
n. a large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail
  yogurt   Example sentences     speak
n. a slightly sour, thick liquid made from milk with bacteria added to it
2025-06-26   (Back to the Day)
  unison   Example sentences     speak
n. corresponding exactly
n. two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch
  vitamin   Example sentences     speak
n. any of a group of natural substances that are necessary in small amounts for the growth and good health
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