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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Animal Farm by George Orwell
 Word of the Day for Grade 9
Specified Day: 2025-09-24
distressspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. discomfort; cause strain, anxiety, or suffering to
In the midst of my distress, I had no notion of going back.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
Elinor, affected by his relation, and still more by his distress, could not speak.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
That individual is in legal possession of the premises, under a distress for rent.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
treatyspeak speak spelling sentences 
n. act of treating for the adjustment of differences; negotiation
The treaty will cease to be secret in a few months.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
Some one, then, was in that room where my precious treaty lay upon the table.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
Peggotty was not slow to respond, and ratify the treaty of friendship by giving me one of her best hugs.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
Review Words:   Recent 15 days   Recent 50 days
Words of the recent 15 days
2025-09-23   (Back to the Day)
  cease   Example sentences     speak
v. stop; terminate; put an end to; discontinue
  stern   Example sentences     speak
a. hard, harsh, or severe in manner or character; firm or unyielding
  contempt   Example sentences     speak
n. state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace; disobedience to, or open disrespect of
2025-09-22   (Back to the Day)
  ignorance   Example sentences     speak
n. lack of knowledge or education
  benefit   Example sentences     speak
n. advantage; something that aids or promotes well-being ; welfare; gain
2025-09-19   (Back to the Day)
  fatal   Example sentences     speak
a. causing death; leading to failure or disaster
  render   Example sentences     speak
v. deliver;give or make available; provide; represent in a drawing or painting
2025-09-18   (Back to the Day)
  misery   Example sentences     speak
n. great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind
  attend   Example sentences     speak
v. be present at; go to; take care of; tend
  proceed   Example sentences     speak
n. follow a certain course; move ahead; travel onward
2025-09-17   (Back to the Day)
  reign   Example sentences     speak
n. sovereignty; rule; dominance or widespread influence
  humble   Example sentences     speak
a. low or inferior in station or quality; modest
2025-09-16   (Back to the Day)
  consent   Example sentences     speak
v. agree in opinion or sentiment; be of the same mind; accord; concur; allow
  eternal   Example sentences     speak
a. forever; being without beginning or end; existing outside of time; infinite
  expedition   Example sentences     speak
n. journey organized for a particular purpose
2025-09-15   (Back to the Day)
  volume   Example sentences     speak
n. capacity; amount of space occupied by an object
  ruin   Example sentences     speak
v. fall or tumble down; destroy; devastate; exterminate
2025-09-12   (Back to the Day)
  ease   Example sentences     speak
n. satisfaction; pleasure; entertainment; freedom from care
  extreme   Example sentences     speak
a. outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit
2025-09-11   (Back to the Day)
  policy   Example sentences     speak
n. settled method of government to administer; system of public or official administration
  capable   Example sentences     speak
a. having the ability required for a specific task
  despair   Example sentences     speak
n. loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency
2025-09-10   (Back to the Day)
  previous   Example sentences     speak
a. existing or occurring before something else
  faithful   Example sentences     speak
a. given with strong assurance; firm in adherence to promises or in observance of duty
2025-09-09   (Back to the Day)
  sympathy   Example sentences     speak
n. compassion; pity; feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune
  affection   Example sentences     speak
n. fondness; tender feeling toward another; fondness
  content   Example sentences     speak
n. volume; something contained; material, including text and images
2025-09-08   (Back to the Day)
  consequence   Example sentences     speak
n. result; relation of a result to its cause; logical conclusion or inference
  genius   Example sentences     speak
n. exceptional creative ability; unusual mental ability; someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
2025-09-05   (Back to the Day)
  numerous   Example sentences     speak
a. many; various; amounting to a large indefinite number
  slight   Example sentences     speak
n. almost no; very little; deliberate discourtesy
2025-09-04   (Back to the Day)
  obtain   Example sentences     speak
v. get hold of; gain possession of; acquire, in any way
  peculiar   Example sentences     speak
a. special; characteristic; unusual; odd; bizarre
  portion   Example sentences     speak
n. section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole
2025-09-03   (Back to the Day)
  distribute   Example sentences     speak
v. hand out; disseminate; allocate
  vast   Example sentences     speak
a. large; broad; extensive; very great in size, number, amount, or quantity
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Emory University
The wise heart seeks knowledge.

University of Chicago
Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched.
Transliteration: Let knowledge increase; life is being refined.