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Spell Bee Word: Consign

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What does consign mean?

Word: Consign

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Consign means to send or hand something over to someone, or to put something away in a place to get rid of it.

Synonyms: send, deliver, hand over

Antonyms: keep, retain

How do you spell consign?

Syllables: con - sign

Tricky part: The g is silent, so students who spell by sound leave it out and write consine.

Watch out for: consine, consighn

Memory tip: Say signature: the g you hear there is the same g that keeps quiet in consign.

Consign in a sentence

Example 1: The farmer consigned his mangoes to a trader in London.

Example 2: Old toys were consigned to the loft.

Example 3: The shop consigned the parcel to a courier for delivery.

Next steps

Fun Fact

Consign comes from the Latin consignare, to mark with a seal. Its root signum, a mark, also gives English signal and insignia.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) resign
b) consigne
c) design
d) foreign

Show answer

b) consigne. Resign and design end in a silent g with no e after it, and so does consign.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

consign

a) receive
b) borrow
c) collect
d) dispatch

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d) dispatch. To dispatch goods is to send them off, which is what consign means; the others bring things in.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

gnosnic

a) consent
b) consign
c) cousin
d) cosign

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b) consign. Cosign has only one n, consent needs a t, and cousin needs a u.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To consign an old letter to the bin means to ____.

a) keep it safe
b) throw it away
c) read it again
d) post it back

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b) throw it away

2. Goods sent together in one batch are called a ____.

a) consignity
b) consignage
c) consignment
d) consignance

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c) consignment

Associated Words

Words that end in -ign: feign, sovereign, campaign, align

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: deliver, retain

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