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Spell Bee Word: Drought


What does drought mean?

Word: Drought

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Drought means a long time with very little or no rain, when land dries up and water is hard to find.

Synonyms: dry spell

How do you spell drought?

Syllables: drought

Tricky part: The ow sound is spelt ou, as in out and loud, never ow or aw, so drowt and drawt are wrong.

Watch out for: drawt, drowt, drowght

Memory tip: In a drought there are no clouds, but the word keeps the ou of cloud.

Drought in a sentence

Example 1: The farmers prayed for rain during the long drought.

Example 2: The lake shrank to a puddle in the drought.

Example 3: Some trees survive a drought by growing very deep roots.

Fun Fact

Drought and dry grew from the same Old English root, so a drought is really just a long time of dryness.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

drought

a) famine
b) flood
c) dryness
d) heat

Show answer

b) flood. A drought means too little water, a flood too much.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The village well ran dry during the long drougth last summer.

a) village
b) summer
c) well
d) drougth

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d) drougth. The silent g and h come before the t: d-r-o-u-g-h-t.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) drought
b) monsune
c) thundar
d) cyclon

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a) drought. Drought is spelt right. Cyclone ends in -one, thunder in -er and monsoon has a double o.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

gutrohd

a) dourght
b) rdought
c) drought
d) roudght

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c) drought. Start with dr, the sound you hear first.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What helps farmers most during a drought?

a) a sack of extra seeds
b) a shed full of tools
c) a heavy new plough
d) water stored in a tank

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d) water stored in a tank

2. What can happen when a drought lasts many months?

a) rivers burst their banks
b) fields turn green and soft
c) snow covers the fields
d) wells and ponds dry up

Show answer

d) wells and ponds dry up

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