9th Grade Words of the Day

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 Word of the Day for Grade 9
Specified Day: 2025-01-21
veteranspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. someone who has given long service
He was a mild, flurried old man, a Civil War veteran, with one sleeve hanging empty.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
She was a veteran too, but she had no cronies with whom she could refight old battles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
Two of the members of the board, the old veteran in the service, Nikitin, and the Kammerjunker Grinevitch, went in with him.
Anna Karenina(V1) By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
abundantlyspeak speak spelling sentences 
ad. in great numbers; in a plentiful or sufficient degree; plentifully
All of the world was crying out for cotton, and the new land of the County, unworn and fertile, produced it abundantly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Freely depicted in his own vocation, gentlemen, the Canaller would make a fine dramatic hero, so abundantly and picturesquely wicked is he.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
A few dingy olives and stunted fig-trees struggled hard for existence, but their withered dusty foliage abundantly proved how unequal was the conflict.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
vanishspeak speak spelling sentences 
v. disappear; pass out of sight, especially quickly; die out
I clung to it as if it might suddenly vanish.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
If her heart chance to come uppermost, they vanish.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
Heyward drew back, all his ardor to proceed seeming to vanish on the instant.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
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Words of the recent 15 days
2025-01-20   (Back to the Day)
  placid   speakExamples  
a. peaceful; tranquil; calm or quiet
  cherish   speakExamples  
v. harbor; treasure; treat with affection and tenderness; hold dear
2025-01-17   (Back to the Day)
  linger   speakExamples  
v. be slow in leaving; continue or persist; stay
  peer   speakExamples  
v. gaze; stare; look searchingly; company with
2025-01-16   (Back to the Day)
  longitude   speakExamples  
n. an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles
  reconciliation   speakExamples  
n. act of reconciling, or state of being reconciled; reconcilement; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship
  tariff   speakExamples  
n. tax on goods coming into a country
2025-01-15   (Back to the Day)
  appoint   speakExamples  
v. assign a job or role to someone; designate; nominate
  mature   speakExamples  
v. develop and reach maturity; grow old or older
2025-01-14   (Back to the Day)
  leisurely   speakExamples  
a. unhurried; slow; taking abundant time
  impose   speakExamples  
v. demand; force; compel to behave in a certain way
  enforce   speakExamples  
v. put force upon; force; constrain; compel; put in motion or action by violence
2025-01-13   (Back to the Day)
  hospitable   speakExamples  
a. disposed to treat guests with warmth and generosity; receptive
  neutral   speakExamples  
a. impartial; not supporting one side over another
2025-01-10   (Back to the Day)
  abrupt   speakExamples  
a. broken off; very steep; having sudden transitions from one subject to another
  pasture   speakExamples  
n. field covered with grass; meadow
2025-01-09   (Back to the Day)
  attire   speakExamples  
n. clothes, especially fine or formal ones; dress
  marine   speakExamples  
a. of, found in, or produced by the sea; naval
  antique   speakExamples  
n. any furniture old and valuable; out of fashion
2025-01-08   (Back to the Day)
  industrious   speakExamples  
a. diligent; hard-working; busy and laborious
  adversary   speakExamples  
n. opponent in contest; someone who offers opposition
2025-01-07   (Back to the Day)
  plea   speakExamples  
n. request for help; excuse or pretext
  offend   speakExamples  
v. strike against; attack; assail; make angry; affront
  shabby   speakExamples  
a. torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged
2024-12-20   (Back to the Day)
  blossom   speakExamples  
n. reproductive organ of plants, especially one having showy or colorful parts
  reject   speakExamples  
v. turn down; refuse to accept; dismiss from consideration
2024-12-19   (Back to the Day)
  terrific   speakExamples  
a. causing extreme terror; very great; extraordinarily good
  commence   speakExamples  
v. have a beginning or origin; originate; start; begin
  sinister   speakExamples  
a. suggesting or threatening evil; accompanied by or leading to disaster
2024-12-18   (Back to the Day)
  tropical   speakExamples  
a. relating to region on either side of the equator; hot and humid
  luminous   speakExamples  
a. shining; emitting light, especially emitting self-generated light
2024-12-17   (Back to the Day)
  captivity   speakExamples  
n. prison; confinement; state of being a prisoner
  monotonous   speakExamples  
a. boring; dull; tediously repetitious or lacking in variety
  moisture   speakExamples  
n. wetness caused by water
2024-12-16   (Back to the Day)
  frail   speakExamples  
a. physically weak; easily broken
  treacherous   speakExamples  
a. dangerous; dangerously unstable and unpredictable; disloyal; tending to betray
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