What does creativity mean?
Word: Creativity
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Creativity means the ability to think of new ideas and to make new and unusual things.
Synonyms: originality, inventiveness
How do you spell creativity?
Syllables: cre - a - tiv - i - ty
Tricky part: After the v comes ity, with no e. Students keep the e of the adjective and write creativeity, or write creativety.
Watch out for: creativety, creativeity, creativaty
Memory tip: Active becomes activity in exactly the same way: no e before the ity.
Creativity in a sentence
Example 1: The science fair showed off the creativity of every class.
Example 2: Building a robot out of waste boxes takes a lot of creativity.
Example 3: Our teacher praised Aarav's creativity in the story-writing contest.
Fun Fact
Creativity is a young word. It was first recorded in English in the 1870s, centuries after the verb and the adjective it grew from.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
creattivity
a) v
b) t
c) r
d) i
Show answer
b) t. There is a single t before the iv, just as in activity.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) electrisity
b) creativity
c) curiousity
d) popularaty
Show answer
b) creativity. Curiosity drops the u of curious, electricity keeps the c of electric, and popularity has an i before the ty.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
creativity
a) patience
b) imagination
c) neatness
d) cleverness
Show answer
b) imagination. Creativity needs imagination, the power to picture new ideas in your mind.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Daniel showed great criativity when he made a kite from old newspaper.
a) kite
b) criativity
c) showed
d) newspaper
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b) criativity. It starts with cre, the same three letters that begin cream.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which activity needs the most creativity?
a) copying notes from the board
b) counting the players in a team
c) learning the rules of chess
d) inventing a new board game
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d) inventing a new board game
2. The judges praised Alice's creativity. What did they like about her model?
a) it was copied neatly from a book
b) it was unlike any other model
c) it was finished before the rest
d) it was the heaviest one there
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b) it was unlike any other model
