What does daring mean?
Word: Daring
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Daring means brave enough to do something risky or new.
Synonyms: brave, fearless, adventurous
Antonyms: timid, cowardly, fearful
How do you spell daring?
Syllables: dar - ing
Tricky part: Daring comes from dare, and the e is dropped before ing. Some children keep it (dareing) or slip in an extra vowel (dairing).
Watch out for: dareing, dairing, daering
Memory tip: Dare loses its e before ing, the same as care becomes caring and share becomes sharing.
Daring in a sentence
Example 1: The daring climber reached the top of the snowy peak.
Example 2: It was daring of Kabir to try the high diving board.
Example 3: The firefighters made a daring rescue from the fourth floor.
Fun Fact
A person who does daring stunts is sometimes called a daredevil, a word that has been in use since the late 1700s.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
daring
a) bold
b) sleepy
c) polite
d) lazy
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a) bold. A bold person, like a daring one, is ready to take a risk.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) corageous
b) fearles
c) daring
d) heroik
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c) daring. Fearless needs two s's, courageous needs its u and heroic ends in c; daring is the one written right.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The darring pilot flew his small plane over the high mountains.
a) mountains
b) pilot
c) plane
d) darring
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d) darring. Daring has a single r, just like dare.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
d_r_ng
a) o, i
b) a, i
c) e, i
d) a, e
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b) a, i. Daring has an a after the d and an i just before ng.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who has to be the most daring?
a) a cook stirring a pot of dal
b) a sailor crossing a stormy sea alone
c) a girl sorting books on a shelf
d) a boy watering the garden plants
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b) a sailor crossing a stormy sea alone
2. Meena is daring. On the school trip she is the first to ____.
a) ask to go home
b) stay on the bus
c) try the rope bridge
d) hide behind Papa
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c) try the rope bridge
