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Spell Bee Word: conscience


Basic Details

Word: Conscience

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: The voice inside you that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong.

Sounds like: conscious (awake and aware of what is around you)

How to Spell Conscience

Syllables: con - science

Tricky part: The sh sound in the middle is spelt sc, and the word ends in ence. Students often leave out the s and write concience.

Watch out for: concience, consience, conshence

Memory tip: Look for science inside it: con + science. Your conscience is the science of knowing right from wrong.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. have something on your conscience: to feel guilty about something you did Example: "He had the broken window on his conscience all week, so he finally told his father."

Usage Examples

Example 1: My conscience told me to return the extra change.

Example 2: She could not sleep with a guilty conscience.

Example 3: Listen to your conscience before you decide.

Fun Fact

Conscience and conscious both come from Latin words for knowing, which is why they look so alike and are often mixed up.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) concious
b) disipline
c) conscience
d) obediance

Show answer

c) conscience. Conscious needs an s before the c, obedience ends in ence and discipline has sc.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Her consience would not let her keep the hundred-rupee note she found under the bench.

a) bench
b) hundred
c) consience
d) found

Show answer

c) consience. The middle of conscience is spelt sc, just like science.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

scenicecon

a) conscience
b) conscious
c) consistence
d) coincidence

Show answer

a) conscience. Three c's and two e's but no u, t or d: the word is conscience.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A guilty conscience makes a person feel ____.

a) sorry for a wrong
b) hungry
c) proud of a win
d) sleepy

Show answer

a) sorry for a wrong

2. Which word means awake and aware, not the inner voice?

a) consent
b) conscious
c) conscience
d) concert

Show answer

b) conscious

Associated Words

mosquitoconfessionuntangledecisivecoordination
distrustharvestprimitivesecondaryblaze

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