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Spell Bee Word: Capture


What does capture mean?

Word: Capture

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Capture means to catch a person or animal and keep them so they cannot get away; also to save a moment in a photo or picture.

Synonyms: catch, seize, trap

How do you spell capture?

Syllables: cap - ture

Tricky part: The end sounds like cher, but it is spelt ture, the same ending as in picture.

Watch out for: captcher, capchure, captur

Memory tip: You capture a moment in a picture, and both words end in t-u-r-e.

Capture in a sentence

Example 1: Forest officers used a cage to capture the leopard.

Example 2: Ravi tried to capture the sunset on his mother's phone.

Example 3: Our class caught a butterfly in a net to look at it, then let it go free.

Fun Fact

Capture and captive both grow from the Latin capere, which means to take.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word: capture

a) find
b) watch
c) follow
d) release

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d) release. To release is to let go, the opposite of catching and keeping.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) escaip
b) capture
c) relees
d) rescew

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b) capture. Rescue ends in ue, escape ends in ape, and release has ea and a final e.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tracepu

a) cpature
b) capture
c) acpture
d) pacture

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b) capture. Put the four-letter ending ture last, then the other three letters in front.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

cappture

a) t
b) p
c) c
d) u

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b) p. Cap has only one p, like the cap you wear.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What could a photo capture?

a) the taste of mango
b) the smell of rain
c) a friend's smile
d) the sound of thunder

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c) a friend's smile

2. In chess, what does it mean to capture a piece?

a) to protect it from attack
b) to move it backwards
c) to swap it for another
d) to take it off the board

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d) to take it off the board

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