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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 Word of the Day for Grade 9
Specified Day: 2025-04-16
bafflespeak speak spelling sentences 
v. frustrate as by confusing or perplexing; impede force or movement of
After that I fell among those thieves, the nine figures, who seemed every evening to do something new to disguise themselves and baffle recognition.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
The ivy was the baffling thing.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
It was a face that changed all the time, baffling.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
discardspeak speak spelling sentences 
v. throw out something from one's hand; get rid of
You must discard the word Fancy altogether.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
But it is women who are the calm realists once they discard the fetishes of the premarital hunt.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
But you have discarded your titles after the example set you by Messrs.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 46. Unlimited Credit.
Review Words:   Rrecent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2025-04-15   (Back to the Day)
  stench   speakExamples  
n. strong, foul odor; stink; foul quality; offensive odor
  prodigy   speakExamples  
n. person with exceptional talents or powers; wonder
  tentative   speakExamples  
a. hesitant; not fully worked out or developed; experimental; not definite or positive
2025-04-14   (Back to the Day)
  babble   speakExamples  
v. talk foolishly or idly; utter meaningless confusion of words or sounds
  agile   speakExamples  
a. moving quickly and lightly; mentally quick
2025-04-11   (Back to the Day)
  coincide   speakExamples  
v. occur at the same time as; correspond
  imperturbable   speakExamples  
a. unshakably calm; placid; incapable of being disturbed or disconcerted
2025-04-10   (Back to the Day)
  outstanding   speakExamples  
a. distinguished from others in excellence
  drab   speakExamples  
a. dull; lacking color; lacking in liveliness, charm, or surprise
  rigor   speakExamples  
n. strictness or severity, as in temperament, action, or judgment; something hard to endure
2025-04-09   (Back to the Day)
  fraudulent   speakExamples  
a. cheating; deceitful; planning or using fraud; given to practice of fraud
  approximate   speakExamples  
v. come close or be similar to something in quality, nature, or quantity; come near
2025-04-08   (Back to the Day)
  fluent   speakExamples  
a. easy and graceful in shape; graceful; smooth and unconstrained in movement
  brittle   speakExamples  
a. easily broken; having little elasticity
  ostrich   speakExamples  
n. large bird of the genus Struthio
2025-04-07   (Back to the Day)
  fiber   speakExamples  
n. slender, elongated, threadlike object or structure; material to make paper or cloth
  visual   speakExamples  
a. seen or able to be seen by the eye; visible; optical
2025-04-04   (Back to the Day)
  raillery   speakExamples  
n. pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment
  elude   speakExamples  
v. avoid cleverly; escape perception of
2025-04-03   (Back to the Day)
  revolve   speakExamples  
v. turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; rotate; move in curved path round a center; pass in cycles
  endanger   speakExamples  
v. threaten; jeopardize; do something that may damage it or destroy it
  recount   speakExamples  
v. narrate or tell; count over again
2025-04-02   (Back to the Day)
  duplicate   speakExamples  
n. one that corresponds exactly to another, especially an original; identical copy; facsimile
  progeny   speakExamples  
n. one derived from another; offspring or descendant; result of creative effort, as product
2025-03-31   (Back to the Day)
  grumble   speakExamples  
v. utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds
  sanitary   speakExamples  
a. relating to health or the protection of health
2025-03-28   (Back to the Day)
  immunity   speakExamples  
n. protection; exemption from normal legal duties
  qualify   speakExamples  
v. make such as is required; give added or requisite qualities to; make legally capable
2025-03-27   (Back to the Day)
  razor   speakExamples  
n. sharp-edged cutting instrument used especially for shaving the face or other body parts
  portable   speakExamples  
a. mobile; easily or conveniently transported
  degrade   speakExamples  
v. reduce level; lower grade of something
2025-03-26   (Back to the Day)
  equator   speakExamples  
n. the imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres
  blemish   speakExamples  
v. mark with deformity; injure or impair, as anything which is excellent; make defective, either the body or mind
2025-03-25   (Back to the Day)
  tardy   speakExamples  
a. late; delayed; moving slowly
  thrifty   speakExamples  
a. careful about money; economical
  unruly   speakExamples  
a. difficult or impossible to discipline, control, or rule; not according to rule; irregularly
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