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Spell Bee Word: Compose

Compose (verb): to write a piece of music, a poem or a letter. It can also mean to calm yourself.

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What does compose mean?

Word: Compose

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Compose means to write a piece of music, a poem or a letter. It can also mean to calm yourself.

Synonyms: write, pen

How do you spell compose?

Syllables: com - pose

Tricky part: The z sound is spelt s, and the word ends in a silent e. Compoze is the most common mistake.

Watch out for: compoze, kompose, compoes

Memory tip: A composer makes the notes pose together in the right order, and pose already has the s and the e you need.

Compose in a sentence

Example 1: Amara composed a short poem for Teachers' Day.

Example 2: Take a deep breath and compose yourself before you go on stage.

Example 3: Water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen.

Fun Fact

A R Rahman composed the music for the film Slumdog Millionaire and won two Oscars for it in 2009.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) propoze
b) supose
c) perpose
d) compose

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d) compose. Suppose needs two p's, propose spells its z sound with s, and purpose begins pur-.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

compose

a) destroy
b) scatter
c) create
d) erase

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c) create. To compose a song is to create it.

Word Makeup

Choose the prefix that completes the word:

____pose

a) com
b) comm
c) kom
d) con

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a) com. Before a p the prefix is com, as in compare and compute.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

pecosom

a) compare
b) compose
c) compost
d) compote

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b) compose. With no t or r in the jumble, compose is the only fit.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 'The class is composed of 20 girls and 18 boys', composed of means ____.

a) chosen from
b) taught by
c) made up of
d) led by

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c) made up of

2. Which noun is formed from the verb compose?

a) comparison
b) competition
c) compassion
d) composition

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d) composition

Associated Words

Words that end in -ose: glucose, grandiose, disclose, dispose, close

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: write, pen

More words from this list

disqualify, friction, irrigation, omnipotent, remorse, thumbnail, accommodate, backlash

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