7th Grade Words of the Day

This Words for the Day webpage helps grade 7 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 7th-grade students to get words and their meanings, examples, and context sources.

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 Word of the Day for Grade 7
Specified Day: 2025-10-16
defectivespeak speak spelling sentences 
a. having a faulty; imperfect or incomplete
The learning of this people is very defective, consisting only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must be allowed to excel.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII.
I am not going out under human guidance, subject to the defective laws and erring control of my feeble fellow-worms: my king, my lawgiver, my captain, is the All-perfect.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has no defect.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
preferspeak speak spelling sentences 
v. select as an alternative over another
v. give preference to one over another
But so it is; a woman will often, from mere wilfulness, prefer that which is dangerous to that which is safe.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 47. The Dappled Grays.
Believe me, there are only the two plans I have proposed to you; forgive my vanity, and tell me which you prefer.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 73. The Promise.
I am to have my meals with the children, if I prefer it to the great table, and for the present I do, for I am bashful, though no one will believe it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
Review Words:   Rrecent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2025-10-15   (Back to the Day)
  permanent   speakExamples  
a. lasting for a long time or for ever; remaining without change
  desperate   speakExamples  
a. having lost all hope; very serious or bad
2025-10-14   (Back to the Day)
  apparent   speakExamples  
a. capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to eye
  recent   speakExamples  
a. of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
2025-10-13   (Back to the Day)
  atmosphere   speakExamples  
n. air, the mixture of gases around the earth
  haste   speakExamples  
n. hurry; rapidity of action or motion
2025-10-10   (Back to the Day)
  patience   speakExamples  
n. the ability to accept delay or annoyance without complaining or becoming angry
n. a card game played by one person
  majority   speakExamples  
n. greater number or part; a number more than half of the total
2025-10-09   (Back to the Day)
  afford   speakExamples  
v. pay or provide; have the financial means for; bear the cost of
  suggestion   speakExamples  
n. an idea, possible plan, or action that is mentioned for other people to consider
2025-10-08   (Back to the Day)
  possess   speakExamples  
v. occupy in person; hold or actually have in one's own keeping; have the legal title to
  disease   speakExamples  
n. illness of people, animals, plants, etc
2025-10-07   (Back to the Day)
  guilty   speakExamples  
a. responsible for breaking a law
a. deserving of blame
  ignorant   speakExamples  
a. lacking education or knowledge; unaware
2025-10-06   (Back to the Day)
  laughter   speakExamples  
n. the act or sound of laughing
  origin   speakExamples  
n. the first existence or beginning of anything
2025-10-03   (Back to the Day)
  solemn   speakExamples  
a. serious and without any humour
  license   speakExamples  
n. official or legal permission to do or own a specified thing
2025-10-02   (Back to the Day)
  precious   speakExamples  
a. of high worth or cost
  attitude   speakExamples  
n. a feeling or opinion about something or someone
2025-09-30   (Back to the Day)
  thoroughly   speakExamples  
ad. completely, very much, in a detailed and careful way
  variety   speakExamples  
n. diversity; quality or condition of being various or varied
2025-09-29   (Back to the Day)
  brilliant   speakExamples  
a. full of light; shining or bright; sharp and clear in tone
  brief   speakExamples  
a. short in time, duration, length, or extent; concise
2025-09-26   (Back to the Day)
  continue   speakExamples  
v. exist over a prolonged period of time
v. span an interval of distance, space or time
  double   speakExamples  
a. twice the size, amount, price, etc.
n. a person who looks exactly the same as someone else
2025-09-25   (Back to the Day)
  forty   speakExamples  
n. the number that is the product of ten and four
a. being ten more than thirty
  entrance   speakExamples  
n. a door, gate, etc. by which you can enter a building or place
2025-09-24   (Back to the Day)
  belief   speakExamples  
n. feeling of being certain that something exists or is true
  motion   speakExamples  
n. movement; act of changing location; ability or power to move
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