CREST International Spell Bee - Winter Class 6 Previous Year Paper

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Syllabus:

Section 1: Spell Bee Words for Class 6

There are a variety of questions based on the following word list and about 70%-80% of questions will come from this list. Question formats are explained in the Spell Bee marking scheme. The words are alphabetically arranged.

Abnormal, abundance, accede, accessory, accidentally, accompanist, accompany, accord, accumulate, accumulation, accusation, acumen, adequate, administration, admiration, adulterated, adverse, adversity, advertisement, affable, affluence, affordable, aggression, agile, algebra, allocate, allocation, alluring, allusion, ally, aloe, alternative, amass, ample, amplify, amulet, animosity, apparatus, apparently, appearance, appease, applause, apprise, approval, approximately, aptitude, archaeologist, ardent, ark, asparagus, aspiration, assistance, assumption, asylum, atrocity, audacity, auspicious, authentic, availability, Bait, balmy, banal, baneful, banquet, bass, befitting, behave, belated, belittle, bellicose, bestow, betray, bicker, bickering, bigot, biodegradable, biodiversity, biological, biotechnology, biting, bittersweet, bizarre, blatant, bleak, blooper, blowing, bonanza, brain, brainstorm, breach, breakthrough, breed, broccoli, bulletin, Cache, calamity, capability, capstone, capricious, capsize, capstone, caption, carnivore, casualty, category, cede, celebrity, cellar, cemetery, centenary, cereal, characteristic, charm, chide, chronological, civilization, clarity, cliché, coalition, coincidence, collusion, columnist, commentator, commercial, compatible, competitive, comprehensible, comprise, concise, conclave, concrete, confront, confrontation, congruent, coniferous, consciousness, consensus, conspiracy, constitutional, contagious, continuous, contraction, contradictory, contrary, coriander, cormorant, cosmopolitan, councillor, counsellor, courtesy, covert, craving, credibility, credulous, crippled, crochet, crucial, crumble, cuisine, culprit, curator, Dauntless, dearth, debacle, deceitful, decipher, decline, defecation, defiant, deficiency, definite, dehydration, deliberate, delicious, delusion, demean, demise, deplete, deplore, deprecate, dermatology, desirable, deteriorate, determination, devious, devoid, diagnosis, differentiate, dignify, disastrous, discourteous, discreet, discretion, discrimination, disorganised, disparage, dispassionate, disperse, disregard, distinction, distort, documentary, dormant, drain, dubious, Earthbound, ecstasy, elaborate, elicit, elimination, ellipse, embrace, emeritus, emission, enchant, endemic, endless, enhance, enliven, ensure, enthralled, enthusiasm, epicentre, epidemic, epilogue, epithet, erratic, eucalyptus, evasive, evidence, evident, evil, excellence, exodus, exonerate, exotic, expedition, expenditure, expertise, extol, extort, Facile, fallible, fatigue, fawning, feasible, feebleness, fenugreek, fickle, fictitious, fiddle, finale, firmness, fitful, flabbergasted, flare, flatter, flaunt, flippant, flourish, flout, fluorescent, foremost, forerunner, foretold, forever, forgive, forthcoming, fortune, freak, frugal, frustrated, frustration, Gallop, gambit, garish, gaunt, genial, genuine, geologist, globalization, glutton, glycerine, gorgeous, governance, gracious, grasp, gregarious, grimace, grime, gruesome, grumble, guerrilla, Haggle, Halo, handicap, harmonious, hatchback, haywire, heart-throb, heptagon, herbivore, hexagon, hindrance, homogenous, homonym, horrendous, humane, humanitarian, humorous, hunch, hypocrite, hypotenuse, Iceberg, ignorant, illicit, illusory, illustrate, imagination, immaturity, immense, immigrant, immortal, immunisation, impairment, impulsive, inadequate, inapplicable, incentive, indifferent, indignant, inertia, inevitable, infallible, influential, inhalation, inhospitable, inhumane, inhumanity, injurious, innovation, inordinate, insolvent, installation, instinctive, institution, integral, intellectual, interaction, interference, interpretation, interruption, intoxicated, intruder, irresolute, irritable, Jailbird, jolly, jostle, joyous, jubilant, jumble, jurisdiction, juvenile, Kernel, Knell, Lassitude, laudatory, legendary, leniency, liberal, liberation, life-threatening, limitation, linger, literary, loyalty, lumberyard, lure, Magnitude, maintenance, malfunction, malnourish, mandate, mandatory, manifesto, manipulate, manipulation, martial, marvellous, massacre, maxim, mediocre, memoir, menial, mentor, meticulous, metropolitan, mettle, microorganisms, millionaire, mind-boggling, mind-blowing, mindset, mind-numbing, miscellaneous, miscreant, miserable, mitigate, mollify, momentum, mortgage, mouth-watering, mundane, murky, murmur, myriad, mysterious, Nail-biting, naive, nasty, navigation, necessarily, negotiation, nepotism, nomadic, notorious, noxious, nurture, nutcracker, nuthatch, Obesity, obnoxious, occupant, octagon, omnivore, opaque, opponent, opportunity, optician, optimistic, opulence, ordeal, orientation, outskirts, overlook, Paltry, pandemic, pandemonium, papyrus, parallel, paralysed, paramount, pardon, participation, patent, pavilion, pedigree, pentagon, penury, periodical, permanence, perpendicular, persistent, personnel, pertaining, pessimistic, petite, physician, pioneer, pioneering, pompous, possession, practitioner, praise, prejudice, preliminary, preparatory, prescription, prestigious, presumption, priority, privilege, probiotic, progressive, prolific, prolong, propagate, propagation, prudent, psychiatric, Qualification, query, quotation, Reassurance, recreation, recruitment, reform, refurbish, refurnish, regretful, reinforce, religion, religious, reluctance, remarkable, repulse, repulsion, requirement, resistance, resolution, resolve, retrieve, retrograde, revolutionary, robust, rubble, Safari, sanatorium, satisfactory, scanty, scatter, scrawny, secular, seizure, sentinel, sesame, severely, shear, sheer, shuffle, similarity, singularity, slavery, slouch, smirk, sorrowful, sponsorship, spotlight, spurt, squat, steward, stubble, substantial, successor, succinct, suffocation, superficial, supplement, surreal, sympathetic, Taciturn, tear-jerker, technical, technique, tender, tentative, testimony, thoughtful, thunderclap, tortuous, tournament, transcribe, transient, transitory, translucent, twinge, typically, Ultimately, ultrasonic, ultrasound, unearthed, unfairly, unflappable, unforeseen, ungainly, unkempt, unnecessary, unparalleled, unquenchable, unreasonable, unremarkable, unsalable, unsightly, uprightness, uptight, urination, Valet, vicious, victim, virtuous, vulnerable, Wallow, warrant, watering, weaken, wilful, witness, wrath, wretched, wunderkind, Zealous

Section 2

It's a Get, Set, Spell! section wherein students would be required to listen to audio and write the spellings of the word asked. The accent used in the audio files is Indian.
This section will be based on the above-given word list.

Upto 20%-30% of the questions may have words outside of the above list. For any improvements or suggestions, do write to us at info@crestolympiads.com.

Please note: All spelling for the test will follow British English conventions. The Oxford Learner's Dictionary will be used as the primary reference for both spellings and meanings. If a word is not found in this dictionary, it will be considered non-existent for the purposes of the test.

Sample Paper Marking Scheme

Previous Year Questions

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Q.1	Choose the right combination to form a word to fill in the blank: ___________ is a tall plant with thick stems that grows in water, especially in Africa. 1. Lumber 2. Fenu 3. Coni 4. Papy 5. greek 6. yard 7. rus
	a) 1 and 6		b) 2 and 5
	c) 4 and 7		d) 3 and 6

Q.2	Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word: superfi_ _ _ _
	a) ciel		b) cile
	c) cial		d) ciul

Q.3	Find out the number of misspelt words in the sentence: Despite living in the same neighbourhood, my friend actually lived in a diffrent subdivision which was on the opposite side of the street.
	a) 4		b) 1
	c) 3		d) 2

Q.4	Choose the option which is the antonym of what the image shows:
	a) miserable		b) energetic
	c) thrilled		d) dawn

Q.5	Choose the correct prefix and suffix to make a meaningful word: ___fici___ 1. Ex 2. De 3. Un 4. Dis 5. sure 6. ture 7. ance 8. ency
	a) 2 and 8		b) 1 and 7
	c) 4 and 5		d) 3 and 6

Q.6	Choose the true statement/s: 1. A curator is a person whose job is to be in charge of the objects or works of art in a museum or an art gallery, etc. 2. A bicker is a cup, usually made of plastic and often without a handle, used for drinking from. 3. A columnist is ​a journalist who writes regular articles for a newspaper or magazine.
	a) both 1 and 2		b) both 2 and 3
	c) both 1 and 3		d) all three are correct

Q.7	Choose the correct word for the blank in the given sentence: The _______ salesman sold the elderly woman the broken vacuum cleaner even though he knew it was junk.
	a) successful		b) fruitful
	c) powerful		d) deceitful

Q.8	Match the words with their antonyms: 1. perilous A.  secure 2. miserable B.  contented 3. astounding C.  mundane
	a) 1-C, 2-A, 3-B		b) 1-A, 2-B, 3-C
	c) 1-B, 2-C, 3-A		d) 1-C, 2-B, 3-A

Q.9	What is the meaning of the word that can be formed from the given letters? liesple
	a) producing bright light by using some forms of radiation		b) a regular oval shape, like a circle that has been pressed on two sides
	c) a flat shape with eight straight sides and eight angles		d) openly refusing to obey somebody

Q.10	Choose the meaning of the word that will be formed by adding ‘i’ and ‘i' to one of the following: 1. d_scrimin_tion 2. d_ce_tful 3. d_st_nction 4. d_sorg_nized
	a) behaving in a dishonest way by telling lies and making people believe things that are not true		b) not able to plan or organize well
	c) the practice of treating somebody or a particular group in society less fairly than others		d) clear difference or contrast especially between people or things that are similar

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Additional Preparation Resource

1. CREST International Spell Bee (Winter) competition Worksheets Package for class 6 - It is a package of 5 worksheets. The worksheets are in the same pattern as the previous year paper. Hence, very useful for preparation. Existing users can purchase additional practice worksheets by following these steps: Login at https://www.crestolympiads.com/login -> Dashboard -> Additional Practice -> Buy & new users can visit https://www.crestolympiads.com/registration

Note: Don’t forget to download the CREST International Spell Bee (Winter) competition past year paper pdf for class 6.