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: 2024-12-21

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 2024-12-20.

contradictspeak speak spelling sentences 
v. deny the truth of a statement, especially by asserting the opposite; confront
elasticspeak speak spelling sentences 
a. springing back; able to return quickly to a former state or condition
Review Words:   Rrecent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2024-12-20   (Back to the Day)
  contradict   speakExamples  
v. deny the truth of a statement, especially by asserting the opposite; confront
  elastic   speakExamples  
a. springing back; able to return quickly to a former state or condition
2024-12-19   (Back to the Day)
  literal   speakExamples  
a. according to the letter or verbal expression; exactly as stated
  novelist   speakExamples  
n. one who writes novels
2024-12-18   (Back to the Day)
  thermometer   speakExamples  
n. instrument for measuring temperature
  commotion   speakExamples  
n. a sudden, short period of noise, confusion, or excited movement
2024-12-17   (Back to the Day)
  impartial   speakExamples  
a. fair; showing lack of favoritism
  ancestor   speakExamples  
n. a person related to you who lived a long time ago; forefather, forerunner, or predecessor
2024-12-16   (Back to the Day)
  strait   speakExamples  
n. a narrow area of sea that connects two larger areas of sea
a. narrow or not broad
  predecessor   speakExamples  
n. former occupant of post; ancestor or forefather
2024-12-13   (Back to the Day)
  regulate   speakExamples  
v. control something, especially by making it work in a particular way; fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
  pavilion   speakExamples  
n. a large building in which sports or entertainments take place
2024-12-12   (Back to the Day)
  adventurous   speakExamples  
a. willing to try new or difficult things; willing to engage in adventures
  exaggeration   speakExamples  
n. act of making something more noticeable than it really is; overstatement
2024-12-11   (Back to the Day)
  cemetery   speakExamples  
n. place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; graveyard
  superintendent   speakExamples  
n. a person who is in charge of work done in a particular department or office
n. janitor or custodian in a building
2024-12-10   (Back to the Day)
  concession   speakExamples  
n. something that is allowed or given up, often to end a disagreement; act of yielding
  operate   speakExamples  
v. be in action or have an effect
v. cut a body open to fix an unhealthy or damaged part
2024-12-09   (Back to the Day)
  perpendicular   speakExamples  
a. vertical or upright; intersecting at or forming right angles; extremely steep
  laboratory   speakExamples  
n. a workplace for the conduct of scientific research
2024-12-06   (Back to the Day)
  vertical   speakExamples  
a. upright in position or posture
  mathematics   speakExamples  
n. science dealing with the logic of quantity and shape
2024-12-05   (Back to the Day)
  spectator   speakExamples  
n. observer or audience; one who looks on
  bachelor   speakExamples  
n. the first or lowest academic degree from colleges
n. unmarried man
2024-12-04   (Back to the Day)
  musician   speakExamples  
n. artist who composes or conducts music as a profession
  cowardice   speakExamples  
n. lack of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; lack of spirit
2024-12-03   (Back to the Day)
  combine   speakExamples  
v. join together to make a single thing or group; blend, fuse, or merge
  merchandise   speakExamples  
n. goods that are bought and sold
2024-12-02   (Back to the Day)
  discontinue   speakExamples  
v. stop doing or providing something; put an end to a state or an activity
  procedure   speakExamples  
n. act or manner of moving forward; steps taken in an action
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