What does discard mean?
Word: Discard
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Discard means to throw away or get rid of something you no longer want or need.
Synonyms: throw away, dump, reject
Antonyms: retain
How do you spell discard?
Syllables: dis - card
Tricky part: The k sound in the middle is spelt with a c, never a k, so diskard is the slip to watch for.
Watch out for: diskard, discarde, diskarde
Memory tip: In a card game you discard the cards you do not want. The c in discard is the same c that starts card.
Discard in a sentence
Example 1: Please discard the banana peel in the green bin.
Example 2: We discard old newspapers only after Dadi reads them.
Example 3: Do not discard the box; we can make a doll's house from it.
Fun Fact
Discard began as a card-game word in the 1500s: to discard was to throw a card out of your hand. Later it came to mean throwing away anything.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
discard
a) toss
b) scrap
c) drop
d) keep
Show answer
d) keep. You keep what you want and discard what you do not.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Amma asked us to dicard the dry flowers and fill the vase with fresh ones.
a) fresh
b) flowers
c) dicard
d) Amma
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c) dicard. Discard has an s between the i and the c.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
radcsid
a) dicsard
b) discrad
c) discard
d) dsicard
Show answer
c) discard. The word ends with card, the thing you throw down in a card game.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) garbedge
b) rubbich
c) recycel
d) discard
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d) discard. Discard is right; garbage, rubbish and recycle each have a letter wrong here.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the most sensible thing to discard?
a) your old school report card
b) a dried-up pen that will not write
c) a library book you have just finished
d) a pencil that needs sharpening
Show answer
b) a dried-up pen that will not write
2. Ravi read his comic and kept it. Mina read hers and put it in the recycling bin. Who discarded a comic?
a) neither of them
b) Ravi
c) both of them
d) Mina
Show answer
d) Mina
