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Spell Bee Word: Anxious


What does anxious mean?

Word: Anxious

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Anxious means full of fear about something that might happen. It can also mean very eager to do something.

Synonyms: worried, nervous, uneasy

Antonyms: relaxed

How do you spell anxious?

Syllables: anx - ious

Tricky part: The ksh sound in the middle is spelt with just one letter, x. Students often write ankshious or anksious.

Watch out for: anxous, ankshious, anxiuos

Memory tip: One letter does the work of the whole worried 'ksh' sound: an x, crossed like the fingers of someone who feels anxious.

Anxious in a sentence

Example 1: Tara felt anxious before her first stage performance.

Example 2: The farmers were anxious because the rains were late.

Example 3: We were anxious to open the parcel from Grandma.

Fun Fact

Anxious comes from a Latin word meaning to choke or squeeze, which is how worry can feel in the chest.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word: anxious

a) scared
b) afraid
c) tense
d) calm

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d) calm. Calm means free from worry.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) nervus
b) jelous
c) frightend
d) anxious

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d) anxious. Nervous needs an o, jealous an a and frightened an e before the d.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

suoxnai

a) obvious
b) anxious
c) various
d) noxious

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b) anxious. The x rules out obvious and various, and with just one o the word cannot be noxious.

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

anxious____

a) ely
b) lly
c) ly
d) ley

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c) ly. Add ly straight on to anxious, just as serious becomes seriously.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is a sign that someone is anxious?

a) laughing at a joke
b) sleeping soundly
c) humming a tune
d) biting their nails

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d) biting their nails

2. 'Anxious to help' means ____.

a) very eager to help
b) unable to help
c) too tired to help
d) afraid to help

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a) very eager to help

Associated Words

Words that end in -ious: conscious, unconscious, harmonious, ferocious, precious, contagious

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: worried, uneasy

More words from this list

colleague, dishonest, frequent, invention, necessary, quantity, somehow, unfortunate

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