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Spell Bee Word: Absent

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What does absent mean?

Word: Absent

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Absent means not in the place where you are meant to be. If you stay home from school, you are absent that day.

Synonyms: away, missing

How do you spell absent?

Syllables: ab - sent

Tricky part: Said quickly, the second vowel almost vanishes, so children guess at it: it is an e.

Watch out for: absint, absunt

Memory tip: Picture a child who is absent, still tucked up in bed at home. The e of bed is the same e you barely hear in absent.

Absent in a sentence

Example 1: Amara was absent on Monday, so she missed the art class.

Example 2: Our teacher reads out the names and marks who is absent.

Example 3: Two players were absent, so our team was short.

Fun Fact

In Latin, ab means away and esse means to be. The Romans joined them as abesse, and absent grew out of that word.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) absent
b) abcent
c) apsent
d) abscent

Show answer

a) absent. The sound after ab is a plain s, with no c or p in it.

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

absent

a) gone
b) happy
c) late
d) present

Show answer

d) present. If you are present, you are here, so present and absent are a pair of opposites.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

nsetab

a) absent
b) abesnt
c) absnet
d) asbent

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a) absent. Say the word slowly and match each sound in order: each wrong choice has moved one letter.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

absennt

a) s
b) e
c) t
d) n

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d) n. Absent has just one n, so one of the two must go.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which child will be marked absent today?

a) Om, who forgot his homework book
b) Tina, who is away on a trip with her family
c) Ravi, who came in ten minutes late
d) Sara, who is sitting quietly at her desk

Show answer

b) Tina, who is away on a trip with her family

2. Your bench partner is absent today. Where is she?

a) in the front row
b) at the board
c) next to you
d) not at school

Show answer

d) not at school

Associated Words

Words that end in -ent: current, instrument, detergent, grandparent, document, argument

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: missing

More words from this list

building, cushion, fried, honeybee, manager, planet, shape, telescope

Next steps

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