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Spell Bee Word: census


Basic Details

Word: Census

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: An official count of all the people in a country, with facts such as age, work and home.

Synonyms: headcount, count

How to Spell Census

Syllables: cen - sus

Tricky part: There are three s sounds but only the first is written with a c. The ending is sus, not sis or ses.

Watch out for: sensus, cencus, censis

Memory tip: A census tries to count one hundred per cent of the people, and census starts with the same cen as cent.

Usage Examples

Example 1: Census officials visited every house in our lane with a long form.

Example 2: The census showed that the town had grown a lot in ten years.

Example 3: Our teacher used census figures to make a bar graph of the population.

Fun Fact

India held a census every ten years from 1881 to 2011, making it one of the longest-running counts in the world.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) population
b) household
c) sensus
d) statistics

Show answer

c) sensus. Census begins with c, like cent and centre.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

censuse

a) u
b) s
c) e
d) n

Show answer

c) e. The word ends in sus with no e after it.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

snesuc

a) census
b) consensus
c) scenes
d) censor

Show answer

a) census. Censor has an o and scenes has two e's, so the six letters make census.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: census

a) festival
b) headcount
c) budget
d) election

Show answer

b) headcount. A headcount is a count of people, which is what a census is.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a census count?

a) the people living in a place
b) the stars in the sky
c) the books in a library
d) the trees in a forest

Show answer

a) the people living in a place

2. How often has India usually held its census?

a) every month
b) every hundred years
c) every ten years
d) every year

Show answer

c) every ten years

Associated Words

adjacentviolentrestrictextinctopaque
luggageimportanceillustrationindustriouscrescent

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