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Spell Bee Word: Ease


What does ease mean?

Word: Ease

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Ease means a feeling of comfort with no trouble or worry. As a verb, it means to make pain or a problem less.

Synonyms: comfort, simplicity, rest

Antonyms: effort, discomfort

How do you spell ease?

Syllables: ease

Tricky part: It begins with ea and ends in a silent e.

Watch out for: eese, eas, eace

Memory tip: Think of a cat curled up at ease on a warm seat: e and a at the front of the word, a quiet e at the back.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. ill at ease: uncomfortable or nervous Example: "The new boy looked ill at ease on his first day."

Ease in a sentence

Example 1: She solved the puzzle with ease.

Example 2: A cool breeze can ease the heat of a summer afternoon.

Example 3: The new flyover will ease traffic in our area.

Fun Fact

The word easel has nothing to do with ease; it comes from Dutch ezel, a donkey, because it carries a load.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

ease

a) skill
b) difficulty
c) pleasure
d) speed

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b) difficulty. Doing something with difficulty is the opposite of doing it with ease.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) leisure
b) relax
c) pleasure
d) eaze

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d) eaze. Ease is spelt with an s, exactly as easy is.

Word Makeup

Choose the correct prefix to make a new word:

ease

a) dis
b) non
c) mis
d) in

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a) dis. Dis + ease gives disease, which first meant a lack of ease.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

She lifted the hevy box of books with ease.

a) books
b) lifted
c) ease
d) hevy

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d) hevy. Heavy has ea, the same pair as in bread.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Emma finished the maths test with ease. How did she find it?

a) not hard at all
b) much too long
c) hard to read
d) full of tricky bits

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a) not hard at all

2. What would ease a long queue at a ticket counter?

a) raising the ticket price
b) closing the counter early
c) letting people push in
d) opening a second counter

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d) opening a second counter

Associated Words

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: comfort, effort, discomfort

More words from this list

govern, lacrosse, oyster, renew, strive, visitor, assure, confusing

Next steps

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