Basic Details
Word: Craving
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: A very strong wish for something, especially a particular food.
Synonyms: longing, desire, yearning, hunger
Antonyms: dislike, aversion
How to Spell Craving
Syllables: crav - ing
Tricky part: Crave drops its e before ing. Students write craveing, or mix up the letters and write carving, which is a different word.
Watch out for: craveing, cravving, creving
Memory tip: When you crave a samosa, the e is eaten up: crave loses its e and becomes craving.
Usage Examples
Example 1: By the end of the long hike, I had a craving for cold buttermilk.
Example 2: Some people get a craving for sweets late at night.
Example 3: Her craving for adventure took her to the Himalayas.
Fun Fact
Pica is a condition in which people crave things that are not food at all, such as chalk, ice or clay.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Three words in the list are spelt correctly and one is not. Choose the meaning of the misspelt word.
1. saving 2. engraving 3. craveing 4. shaving
a) cutting hair off the skin with a razor
b) a strong wish for something, especially food
c) keeping money aside to use later
d) a design cut into metal, wood or stone
Show answer
b) a strong wish for something, especially food. Craveing keeps an e it should drop, while shaving and saving drop theirs correctly.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the word in the sentence and choose it:
After the long fast, Nani had a strong rangcvi for a bowl of mango ice cream.
a) craving
b) caring
c) crating
d) carving
Show answer
a) craving. Craving and carving share these letters, but only a craving can be for ice cream.
Word Connection
Choose the word closest in meaning to craving as used in the sentence:
During the board exams, my brother's craving for chocolate grew so strong that he hid bars in his pencil box.
a) desire
b) shame
c) fear
d) dislike
Show answer
a) desire. A craving is a very strong desire.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Someone with a craving for jalebis ____.
a) has never heard of them
b) is afraid of them
c) is tired of them
d) wants them badly
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d) wants them badly
2. Craving and carving are easy to mix up. Carving means ____.
a) cutting shapes into wood
b) wanting something badly
c) cooking food very slowly
d) drawing with a pencil
Show answer
a) cutting shapes into wood
