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Spell Bee Word: Clockwise

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What does clockwise mean?

Word: Clockwise

Part of Speech: Adverb

Meaning: Clockwise means in the direction that the hands of a clock move round its face.

Antonyms: anticlockwise

How do you spell clockwise?

Syllables: clock - wise

Tricky part: The end is -wise with an s, not -wize or -ways.

Watch out for: clockwize, clokwise, clockwice

Memory tip: The -wise ending means in the manner of, as in otherwise and likewise: clockwise is the way a clock's hands go round.

Clockwise in a sentence

Example 1: Turn the lid clockwise to close the bottle.

Example 2: In the card game, turns pass clockwise round the table.

Example 3: The teacher asked us to pass the answer sheets clockwise along the row.

Next steps

Fun Fact

Many historians think clockwise became the direction of clock hands because early clocks copied sundials in the northern half of the world, where the shadow moves that way.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) dorbell
b) clockwise
c) wristwach
d) timetabel

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b) clockwise. Wristwatch needs a t before ch, doorbell two o's and timetable ends in -ble.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

clockewise

a) e
b) s
c) k
d) c

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a) e. Clock ends in k and wise starts with w, and no letter goes between them.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

wicklesco

a) lockjaw
b) clockwise
c) clockwork
d) likewise

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b) clockwise. Nine letters with a c, a k, an s and a w, and only clockwise spends them all.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) clockwise
b) diagonal
c) horizantal
d) vertical

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c) horizantal. Horizontal is built on horizon, so it keeps the o: horizontal.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. You face north and make a quarter turn clockwise. Which way do you face now?

a) east
b) north
c) south
d) west

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a) east

2. A clockwise walk around a fountain keeps the fountain on your ____.

a) front
b) right
c) back
d) left

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b) right

Associated Words

Words that end in -ise: concise, compromise, mayonnaise, excise, improvise, despise

More words from this list

determination, fellowship, inaudible, neighbourhood, pursue, suspicious, yield, archaeologist

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