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Spell Bee Word: Accommodate


What does accommodate mean?

Word: Accommodate

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Accommodate means to have enough room for people or things. It can also mean to change your plans to suit someone's needs.

Synonyms: house, lodge, adjust

How do you spell accommodate?

Syllables: ac - com - mo - date

Tricky part: It has a double c and a double m. Most mistakes drop one m.

Watch out for: accomodate, acommodate, acomodate

Memory tip: The word is big enough to accommodate two pairs of twins: a double c and a double m.

Accommodate in a sentence

Example 1: The school hall can accommodate five hundred students.

Example 2: My aunt's small flat accommodated all twelve cousins during the summer holidays.

Example 3: The coach changed the practice time to accommodate the players who had exams.

Fun Fact

Accommodate comes from Latin accommodare, to make fit, from ad (to) and commodus (fitting). Commodious, meaning roomy, comes from the same root.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) ocassion
b) accommodate
c) comittee
d) embarass

Show answer

b) accommodate. Committee needs a double m, occasion a double c with one s, and embarrass a double r.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

acc_mm_date

a) u, o
b) a, o
c) o, a
d) o, o

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d) o, o. Say ac-com-mo-date: com, then mo, both with o.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

accommodate

a) hold
b) reject
c) scatter
d) empty

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a) hold. A hall that accommodates 500 people can hold that many.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A bus that can accommodate forty passengers ____.

a) makes forty trips a day
b) has forty people on it now
c) has seats for forty people
d) has forty windows

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c) has seats for forty people

2. To accommodate a friend's request is to ____.

a) turn it down
b) go along with it
c) pass it on
d) laugh it off

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b) go along with it

Associated Words

Words that end in -date: mandate, inundate, elucidate

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: house, lodge, adjust

More words from this list

backlash, compose, disqualify, friction, irrigation, omnipotent, remorse, thumbnail

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