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: 2026-07-17
There is no new word today!
Every weekend, the first day of each month, winter break (Dec 23 to Jan 6), and summer (part of July and all of August) are word-free days.
Today has no new words, but you can review the recent ones from 2026-07-17.
Review Words:
Recent 15 days
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Words of the recent 15 days
2026-07-13 (Back to the Day)
worthwhile 
a. sufficiently valuable; important to be worth one's time, effort, or interest
2026-07-10 (Back to the Day)
vaccine
n. harmless form of the germs that cause a disease to prevent people getting the actual disease
ventriloquist
n. one who can make his voice seem to come from another person or thing
2026-07-09 (Back to the Day)
therapeutic
a. curative; having or exhibiting healing powers; relating to healing art
toxic
a. poisonous; caused by a toxin or other poison
trek
n. travel; journey or leg of a journey, especially when slow or difficult
2026-07-08 (Back to the Day)
spasmodic
a. affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; periodic
terrain
n. piece of ground having specific characteristics or military potential; area of land; ground
2026-07-07 (Back to the Day)
slacken
v. become slower; loosen; become less vigorous, intense, or severe
smolder
v. burn without flame; be liable to break out at any moment
sophomoric
a. immature; half-baked, like a sophomore
2026-07-06 (Back to the Day)
sheathe
v. enclose with protective covering; encase; cover up or hide
skeptic
n. doubter; person who suspends judgment until evidence has been examined
2026-07-03 (Back to the Day)
rotate
v. plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; swirl; revolve; turn on or around an axis or a center
scrumptious
a. nice; particular; fastidious; excellent; fine
2026-07-02 (Back to the Day)
repatriate
v. restore or return to the country of birth, citizenship, or origin
retreat
n. receding; pull back or move away or backward; withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position
rodent
n. gnawing; biting; corroding; any of various mammals of rodent, such as a mouse, rat, squirrel,
2026-06-30 (Back to the Day)
rampage
n. violent or riotous behavior; state of excitement, passion, or debauchery
ration
n. allotment; allowance; portion; allot; distribute in rations
reconnaissance
n. gain information about enemy; inspection or exploration of an area
2026-06-29 (Back to the Day)
protrude
v. extend out or project in space; stick out
quixotic
a. idealistic without regard to practicality
2026-06-26 (Back to the Day)
poncho
n. a kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through
proliferate
v. grow rapidly; propagate; reproduce
2026-06-25 (Back to the Day)
ozone
n. unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen
pesky
a. pestering; vexatious; troublesome; causing irritation or annoyance
plagiarize
v. steal another's ideas and pass them off as one's own
2026-06-24 (Back to the Day)
landslide
n. slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff; overwhelming electoral victory
outmoded
a. no longer usable or practical; obsolete; not in fashion
2026-06-23 (Back to the Day)
inept
a. lacking of judgment, sense, or reason; unsuited; inappropriate; foolish
inflate
v. expand; fill with air or gas; increase the amount or availability of
inhibit
v. restrain; prevent or forbid; hold back
2026-06-22 (Back to the Day)
ignite
v. kindle; cause to start burning; set fire to
immigrant
n. one who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there; non-native