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Spell Bee Word: Chill


What does chill mean?

Word: Chill

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Chill means a cold feeling in the air or in the water.

Synonyms: coldness

Antonyms: heat

How do you spell chill?

Syllables: chill

Tricky part: A double l ends this short word. Children who spell by sound often stop at one l.

Watch out for: chil, chille

Memory tip: Picture two icicles hanging from a cold roof: they are the two l's at the end.

Chill in a sentence

Example 1: We felt a chill as the sun went down behind the hills.

Example 2: There was a chill in the lake when we first stepped in.

Example 3: Grandma closed the window to keep out the evening chill.

Fun Fact

Chill and cold come from the same very old family of words, and so does cool.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

chill

a) breeze
b) warmth
c) shiver
d) frost

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b) warmth. Warmth is the cosy feeling you get when the cold goes away.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) snowey
b) chill
c) wintar
d) shivver

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b) chill. Winter ends in er, shiver has one v, and snowy ends in a plain y.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

lichl

a) cihll
b) hcill
c) chill
d) ichll

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c) chill. The c and h go together at the start to make the ch sound.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

A cold chell in the air made Meena pull her shawl tighter.

a) tighter
b) shawl
c) chell
d) cold

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c) chell. The vowel after ch is the short i you hear in chin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There is a chill in the air this morning. What should Arjun wear?

a) a sun hat
b) a woollen sweater
c) a cotton vest
d) rubber sandals

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b) a woollen sweater

2. When is north India most likely to have a chill in the air?

a) on a May afternoon
b) on a December morning
c) on an August afternoon
d) on a June afternoon

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b) on a December morning

Associated Words

Words that end in -ill: windmill, ill, hornbill, skill, goodwill

More words from this list

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