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Spell Bee Word: Courting


Basic Details

Word: Courting

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Trying to win someone's support or favour; also, behaving in a way that risks something bad, as in courting danger.

Synonyms: wooing, seeking, pursuing, inviting

Antonyms: avoiding, shunning

How to Spell Courting

Syllables: court - ing

Tricky part: Court is spelt our, and ing is added without doubling the t.

Watch out for: corting, courtting, courteing

Memory tip: Court already ends in two consonants, r and t, so it never doubles: court + ing, like sort and sorting.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. courting disaster: behaving in a way that is very likely to end badly. Example: "Leaving the gas on while you go out is courting disaster."

Usage Examples

Example 1: The town is courting tourists with a new heritage walk.

Example 2: Climbing that crumbling wall is courting trouble.

Example 3: Both teams were courting the star player before the auction.

Fun Fact

Many birds have courting displays. The peacock raises and shakes his long train of feathers to impress a peahen, making a rattling sound as he does it.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word courting as used in the sentence:

The new party was courting the votes of young people with promises of jobs.

a) shunning
b) chasing
c) wooing
d) seeking

Show answer

a) shunning. Seeking, wooing and chasing votes are all ways of courting them; shunning means keeping away.

Mingle-Mangle

Unjumble the letters in the sentence to form a meaningful word:

The company is ngotcrui new customers with free home delivery.

a) scouting
b) touring
c) courting
d) counting

Show answer

c) courting. The letters include an r and a c, and the sentence needs a word for trying to win customers.

Word Cookie

Fill in the missing letters to complete the word:

c_urt_ng

a) o, e
b) a, i
c) u, i
d) o, i

Show answer

d) o, i. Court is spelt with ou, and the ending is the usual ing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Courting public opinion means ____.

a) playing on a tennis court
b) taking someone to a law court
c) trying to win people's support
d) ignoring what people think

Show answer

c) trying to win people's support

2. In old stories, a courting couple was ____.

a) two players at tennis
b) a pair hoping to marry
c) a pair of judges
d) two guards at a palace

Show answer

b) a pair hoping to marry

Associated Words

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