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Spell Bee Word: compost


Basic Details

Word: Compost

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: A dark, crumbly mixture made when vegetable peels, dry leaves and other plant waste rot down. Gardeners mix it into soil to feed plants.

How to Spell Compost

Syllables: com - post

Tricky part: The second part is post, as in post office. Because it is said quickly, many children write u in place of the second o.

Watch out for: compust, kompost, compoast

Memory tip: Picture yourself posting banana peels into a garden pit the way you post a letter into a red post box: com + post.

Usage Examples

Example 1: Our school garden uses compost made from the canteen's vegetable waste.

Example 2: Mausi turns the compost pile with a spade every Sunday.

Example 3: Tomato plants grew taller in the bed where we had added compost.

Fun Fact

A well-kept compost heap gets warm inside, sometimes close to 60 degrees Celsius, because of the tiny living things breaking the waste down.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) compost
b) harvist
c) irrigasion
d) pestiside

Show answer

a) compost. Pesticide needs a c, irrigation a t and harvest an e, so those three are misspelt.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

ospmcot

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

Show answer

c) compost. Only compost uses an s and a t together with no e.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

compoast

a) t
b) a
c) o
d) p

Show answer

b) a. Post has no a in it, so the a has slipped in by mistake.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these can go into a compost pit?

a) glass bottles
b) plastic bags
c) vegetable peels and dry leaves
d) old batteries

Show answer

c) vegetable peels and dry leaves

2. Farmers add compost to their fields to ____.

a) change the colour of the crop
b) keep the soil dry
c) make the soil richer
d) scare away crows

Show answer

c) make the soil richer

Associated Words

imperativedismantleantidotemilitaryobedient
deedforeignvaccinereallybrisk

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