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Spell Bee Word: Compassion


Basic Details

Word: Compassion

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: A strong feeling of sadness for someone who is suffering, together with a wish to help them.

Synonyms: kindness, sympathy, pity, mercy

Antonyms: cruelty, heartlessness

How to Spell Compassion

Syllables: com - pas - sion

Tricky part: The middle has a double s followed by ion. Children write compasion or compashun.

Watch out for: compasion, compashun, compassoin

Memory tip: Compassion is com + passion. Passion already has its double s, so it comes along unchanged.

Usage Examples

Example 1: The nurse looked after the sick man with great compassion.

Example 2: Show compassion to animals, especially stray dogs in winter.

Example 3: Sana felt compassion for the new girl sitting alone.

Fun Fact

It comes from the Latin com-, with, and pati, to suffer, so it first meant suffering together with someone.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

compassion

a) kindness
b) mercy
c) cruelty
d) pity

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c) cruelty. Cruelty means hurting others, the very opposite of wanting to help them.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) generocity
b) kindnes
c) compassion
d) sympathie

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c) compassion. Generosity is spelt with an s, kindness ends in a double s and sympathy ends in y.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

pinsacsoom

a) compasison
b) compassoin
c) comapssion
d) compassion

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d) compassion. Find com, then passion, which ends in s-i-o-n.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letters to form a word:

comp_ss_on

a) e, i
b) a, e
c) o, i
d) a, i

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d) a, i. The word passion sits inside: p-a-ss-i-on.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which action shows compassion?

a) sharing your umbrella with a wet stranger
b) keeping all the sweets
c) pushing ahead in a queue
d) laughing when someone trips

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a) sharing your umbrella with a wet stranger

2. A person full of compassion is

a) lazy
b) caring
c) careless
d) angry

Show answer

b) caring

Associated Words

modernunhappylandlordpatiencelaunch
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