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Spell Bee Word: culpability


Basic Details

Word: Culpability

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: The state of being to blame for something wrong or harmful.

Synonyms: guilt, blame, responsibility, fault

Antonyms: innocence, blamelessness

How to Spell Culpability

Syllables: cul - pa - bil - i - ty

Tricky part: After culp comes a, not i, and the ending is bility, with an i before the l. Students often write culpibility or culpablity.

Watch out for: culpibility, culpabilty, culpablity

Memory tip: Start from culpable. Just as able turns into ability, culpable turns into culpability.

Usage Examples

Example 1: The report found no culpability on the part of the bus driver.

Example 2: The company accepted its culpability for the oil spill.

Example 3: The police are still deciding the culpability of each person involved.

Fun Fact

Culpa is Latin for fault. The Latin phrase mea culpa, my fault, is still used in English when someone owns up to a mistake.

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Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word: culpability

a) guilt
b) blame
c) fault
d) innocence

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d) innocence. Innocence means not being to blame; guilt, blame and fault all mean nearly the same as culpability.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

piltycabuli

a) culpable
b) applicability
c) capability
d) culpability

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d) culpability. Capability has no u or second l; all eleven letters make culpability.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

culp_b_lity

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

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d) a, i. Culpable has an a after p, and ability has an i after b.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If someone admits culpability, they admit that they ____.

a) are tired
b) are to blame
c) are innocent
d) are lucky

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b) are to blame

2. Which phrase uses culpa, the Latin word for fault?

a) mea culpa
b) vice versa
c) et cetera
d) carpe diem

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a) mea culpa

Associated Words

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