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Spell Bee Word: distinguish


Basic Details

Word: Distinguish

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: To see or show the difference between two things; also to be able to see or hear something clearly.

Synonyms: tell apart, differentiate, recognise

Antonyms: confuse, mix up

How to Spell Distinguish

Syllables: dis - tin - guish

Tricky part: After the g comes a u, so it is guish, the gw sound you also hear in language. Students write distingush or distingwish.

Watch out for: distingush, distingwish, distinguis

Memory tip: Language and penguin both hide the pair gu, and distinguish does too: dis-tin-guish, with gu in the last part.

Usage Examples

Example 1: Can you distinguish between a crow and a raven?

Example 2: In the dark it was hard to distinguish the path from the grass.

Example 3: The twins wear different hair clips so their teachers can distinguish them.

Fun Fact

About 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women have some colour blindness, which makes it hard to distinguish certain colours, most often red and green.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word: distinguish

a) confuse
b) differentiate
c) recognise
d) identify

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a) confuse. To confuse two things is to mix them up, the opposite of telling them apart.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) distinguish
b) pengiun
c) langauge
d) relinquesh

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a) distinguish. Distinguish keeps gu in the right order; relinquish, penguin and language are misspelt here.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

hsguniitisd

a) extinguish
b) distinguish
c) distinguished
d) disgusting

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b) distinguish. Eleven letters with an h and two s's but no e or x: only distinguish fits.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To distinguish two things is to ____.

a) throw them away
b) see how they are different
c) glue them together
d) count them

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b) see how they are different

2. A distinguished scientist is one who is ____.

a) respected for her work
b) always angry
c) very old
d) unknown

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a) respected for her work

Associated Words

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