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Spell Bee Word: Career


What does career mean?

Word: Career

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Career means the job or kind of work a person does for a large part of their life.

Synonyms: occupation, vocation

How do you spell career?

Syllables: ca - reer

Tricky part: There is only one r after the a; the second r comes right at the end. Carrier, with rr and ie, is a different word.

Watch out for: carreer, carier, carrer

Memory tip: Carrier carries things and needs rr; career has a single r after the a, so the two words never share a spelling.

Career in a sentence

Example 1: My aunt began her career as a nurse at a big London clinic.

Example 2: He wants a career in wildlife photography.

Example 3: The cricketer scored his first century early in his career.

Fun Fact

Career can also be a verb: a bus that careers down a hill is moving fast and out of control.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) salery
b) career
c) aprentice
d) achievment

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b) career. Salary ends in ary, achievement keeps the e before ment, and apprentice has pp.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: career

a) holiday
b) profession
c) hobby
d) retirement

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b) profession. A profession is the work you do for a living over many years.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

After twenty years at the bank, my uncle began a new carear as a baker.

a) carear
b) baker
c) twenty
d) uncle

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a) carear. The ending of career is eer, the same as in steer and deer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is a career rather than a hobby?

a) playing chess at weekends
b) collecting old stamps
c) working as a pilot
d) growing roses at home

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c) working as a pilot

2. A person who changes career ____.

a) takes a long holiday from work
b) gets a higher post in the same job
c) starts a different kind of work
d) moves to another office of the same firm

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c) starts a different kind of work

Associated Words

Words that end in -eer: auctioneer, pioneer, engineer, volunteer

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: occupation, vocation

More words from this list

cosmic, domestication, gardening, irresponsible, opaque, repulsive, transport, architecture

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