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.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Word of the Day for Grade 9
Specified Day: 2026-02-17
| arena |     |
n. playing field where sports events take place; large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads.
It became, emphatically, the bloody arena, in which most of the battles for the mastery of the colonies were contested.
But neither of the men paid much attention to these things, their eyes being concentrated upon the little flat stone, which to them was an arena vast and important as a battlefield.
| particle | |
n. a tiny piece of anything
There was not a particle of earth beneath their feet.
He looked like a man cut away from the stake, when the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them, or taking away one particle from their compacted aged robustness.
He glanced at her frizzled head, bare shoulders, and fantastically trimmed dress with an expression that abashed her more than his answer, which had not a particle of his usual politeness in it.
| span | |
n. duration; distance; cover; extent or measure of space between two points
Well, Bill, I see you have a new span of horses.
And even the miserable lives we lead are not allowed to reach their natural span.
I struck downstream and shouted, as the open spring wagon came into view on the middle span.
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2026-02-16 (Back to the Day)
crafty 
a. relating to, or characterized by, skill; dexterous; skillful
finance
n. management of money and credit and banking and investments; subsidizing; fund
2026-02-13 (Back to the Day)
lash
n. any of the short hairs fringing the edge of the eyelid
myth
n. legend; fable; a traditional story accepted as history
2026-02-12 (Back to the Day)
economical
a. thrifty; saving; using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness
circumference
n. boundary line of a circle, figure, area, or object
reliable
a. worthy of being depended on; trustworthy
2026-02-11 (Back to the Day)
inhabit
v. live in; occupy; reside in
dexterity
n. right-handedness; readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts
2026-02-10 (Back to the Day)
ensure
v. make sure or certain; insure; assure
chant
v. utter with a melodious voice; celebrate in song; make melody with the voice
morsel
n. a little bite or bit of food; a small quantity; a little piece; a fragment
2026-02-09 (Back to the Day)
drowsy
a. dull with sleepiness; showing lack of attention
blunt
a. having a dull edge or end; not sharp; lacking in feeling; insensitive
2026-02-06 (Back to the Day)
blunder
n. serious mistake typically caused by ignorance or confusion
persist
v. continue; insist; persevere
2026-02-05 (Back to the Day)
feat
n. an achievement that requires great courage, skill, or strength; accomplishment
adorn
v. enhance or decorate with or as if with ornaments
implore
v. beg for urgently; make an earnest appeal
2026-02-04 (Back to the Day)
peninsula
n. a piece of land almost completely surrounded by water but joined to a larger mass of land
convict
v. find or declare guilty
2026-02-03 (Back to the Day)
provoke
v. stir to anger; give rise to; stir to action or feeling
colossal
a. of extraordinary size; huge; gigantic
digest
v. break down; make more concise; convert food into absorbable substances
2026-02-02 (Back to the Day)
interpret
v. explain or tell the meaning of; translate orally; decipher
dismiss
v. stop considering; end employment or service of; discharge; refuse to accept or recognize
2026-01-30 (Back to the Day)
anticipate
v. act in advance of; deal with ahead of time; predict
detain
v. keep back or from; withhold; restrain from proceeding; stay or stop; delay
2026-01-29 (Back to the Day)
diminish
v. dwindle; reduce; make smaller or less or to cause to appear so
omit
v. leave undone or leave out ; bypass; neglect; fail to include or mention
grudge
v. be unwilling or reluctant to give or admit; be envious; show discontent
2026-01-28 (Back to the Day)
soothe
v. cause to feel better; give moral or emotional strength to
expanse
n. patch; wide and open extent, as of surface, land, or sky
2026-01-27 (Back to the Day)
deputy
n. one appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him; substitute in office
commend
v. commit, entrust, or give in charge for care or preservation; recommend as worthy of confidence or regard
ferocious
a. fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty