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: 2025-01-21
gaugespeak speak spelling sentences 
n. measuring instrument; measure or judge
Incommunicative as he was, some time elapsed before I had an opportunity of gauging his mind.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
I thoroughly gauged his disposition from his behaviour, and saw at once it would be folly to attempt humouring him.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
chauffeurspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. someone whose job is to drive a car for a rich or important person
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Words of the recent 15 days
2025-01-20   (Back to the Day)
  astronomy   speakExamples  
n. branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and universe as a whole
  rupture   speakExamples  
v. cause something to explode, break, or tear; make a sudden noisy break
2025-01-17   (Back to the Day)
  decrease   speakExamples  
v. lessen or reduce; make a quantity smaller
  concentrate   speakExamples  
v. bring to or direct toward a common center; unite more closely; gather into one body
2025-01-16   (Back to the Day)
  expand   speakExamples  
v. become larger in size or volume; grow stronger; add details
  triple   speakExamples  
a. having three parts of the same type, or happening three times
a. multiplied by three; threefold
2025-01-15   (Back to the Day)
  biscuit   speakExamples  
n. a small, flat cake that is dry and usually sweet; cookie
  dismissal   speakExamples  
n. termination of someone's employment
n. permission to go; the sending away of someone
2025-01-14   (Back to the Day)
  volcano   speakExamples  
n. a mountain with a large, circular hole at the top through which lava, gases, and dust are or have been forced out
  stationary   speakExamples  
a. fixed or immobile; not capable of being moved
2025-01-13   (Back to the Day)
  apprentice   speakExamples  
n. works for an expert to learn a trade; beginner or learner
  uniformity   speakExamples  
n. sameness or consistency; not changing or being different in any way
2025-01-10   (Back to the Day)
  accommodate   speakExamples  
v. do a favor or service for; provide for; supply with; make suitable
  hurricane   speakExamples  
n. a violent wind that has a circular movement, especially in the West Atlantic Ocean
2025-01-09   (Back to the Day)
  trillion   speakExamples  
n. a thousand billion
  senator   speakExamples  
n. a member of a senate; a member of the king's council
2025-01-08   (Back to the Day)
  descendant   speakExamples  
n. a person related to someone from an earlier generation; offspring
  inspector   speakExamples  
n. someone whose job is to officially inspect something
n. high ranking police officer
2025-01-07   (Back to the Day)
  emphatic   speakExamples  
a. done or said in a strong way and without any doubt
  supervision   speakExamples  
n. management by overseeing the performance and making certain that everything is done correctly
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
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