What does accomplish mean?
Word: Accomplish
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Accomplish means to finish something successfully, especially something that needed effort.
Synonyms: complete, finish
Antonyms: fail
How do you spell accomplish?
Syllables: ac - com - plish
Tricky part: There is only one m, and the vowel in com is an o, not a or u. The ending is ish, never esh.
Watch out for: accomplesh, accumplish, accommplish
Memory tip: Accomplish ends in ish, just like finish, and to accomplish a job is to finish it well.
Accomplish in a sentence
Example 1: We accomplished the whole science project in one weekend.
Example 2: If you practise every day, you can accomplish a lot in a month.
Example 3: The team accomplished its goal of planting a hundred trees.
Fun Fact
Many teams tried and failed to climb Mount Everest before Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary accomplished it in 1953.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) astonish
b) acomplish
c) establish
d) distinguish
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b) acomplish. Accomplish needs a double c, like accept.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word: accomplish
a) abandon
b) attempt
c) achieve
d) delay
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c) achieve. To achieve something is to accomplish it; attempting only means trying.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
hiclscopam
a) complain
b) accomplish
c) complicate
d) compliment
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b) accomplish. There is an h and an s but no e, n or t, so the letters cannot make compliment, complicate or complain.
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
accomplish____
a) ment
b) mant
c) mint
d) mente
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a) ment. The noun is accomplishment, with the same ment as in enjoyment.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. If you accomplish a goal, you ____.
a) give it up
b) change it
c) reach it
d) set it
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c) reach it
2. Neha accomplished her plan to read twenty books this summer. This means she ____.
a) managed to do it
b) put it off
c) forgot about it
d) gave up halfway
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a) managed to do it
