What does conquer mean?
Word: Conquer
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Conquer means to defeat people and take control of their land by force. It also means to overcome a problem or a fear.
Synonyms: defeat, overcome, vanquish
Antonyms: lose
Sounds like: conker (the shiny brown seed of the horse chestnut tree)
How do you spell conquer?
Syllables: con - quer
Tricky part: The k sound in the middle is spelt qu, so students who write it as they hear it put konquer or conqer.
Watch out for: konquer, conqer
Memory tip: In English q nearly always brings its u along, so the k sound here is qu, never a k or a lone q.
Conquer in a sentence
Example 1: Ravi finally conquered his fear of the dark.
Example 2: Our cricket team conquered its nerves and won the final.
Example 3: Rohini conquered the steep climb to the hilltop fort in under an hour.
Fun Fact
Edmund Hillary, one of the first two climbers to reach the top of Mount Everest in 1953, is often quoted as saying: 'It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.'
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
conquer
a) capture
b) crush
c) surrender
d) invade
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c) surrender. Crush, capture and invade are all ways of winning by force; to surrender is to give in.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) antique
b) unique
c) technique
d) conquor
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d) conquor. Unique and antique end in -que, but conquer ends in -er.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
quecron
a) croquet
b) conquer
c) quencher
d) concur
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b) conquer. Croquet, concur and quencher share letters with it, but only conquer uses exactly these seven.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which noun names the act of conquering?
a) conquerment
b) conquery
c) conquerance
d) conquest
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d) conquest
2. Mira has conquered the hardest climbing wall at the sports centre. This means she ____.
a) gave up halfway up the wall
b) watched the others climb it
c) bought new climbing shoes
d) got all the way to the top
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d) got all the way to the top
