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Spell Bee Word: Cement


What does cement mean?

Word: Cement

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Cement means a grey powder that builders mix with water to stick bricks together and make strong floors.

How do you spell cement?

Syllables: ce - ment

Tricky part: Cement begins with a c that sounds like s. Children often write sement or siment.

Watch out for: sement, siment

Memory tip: When c comes before e it often says s: cement, cent, centre.

Cement in a sentence

Example 1: The workers mixed cement for the new wall.

Example 2: Someone wrote their name in the wet cement.

Example 3: A truck brought a load of cement to our street.

Fun Fact

Cement does not set just by drying out. It sets through a chemical change with water, so it can even set under water.

Practise the CREST Way

Spellacadabra

From which option does a letter need to be removed to make a meaningful word?

a) brick
b) cemment
c) stone
d) tiles

Show answer

b) cemment. Cement has only one m, so one of them must go.

Spell Spies

Choose the misspelt word/s in the given sentence:

Papa bought two bags of cemant to fix the wall.

a) cemant and bought
b) bags and wall
c) Papa and fix
d) only cemant

Show answer

d) only cemant. Cement ends in ment, as moment does.

Jumble Tumble

What is the meaning of the word that can be formed from the given letters?

tecmen

a) a grey powder used to join bricks
b) the middle point of something
c) a small coin worth very little
d) a very short moment of time

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a) a grey powder used to join bricks. Rearranged, tecmen spells cement, which builders use every day.

Word Champ

Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?

cement

a) meet
b) men
c) ten
d) tent

Show answer

d) tent. Tent begins and ends with t, and cement can give only one t.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once wet cement sets, it becomes ___.

a) sweet
b) hard
c) runny
d) soft

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b) hard

2. What is mixed with cement and water to build walls?

a) sand
b) oil
c) milk
d) sugar

Show answer

a) sand

Associated Words

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