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Spell Bee Word: Endurance


Basic Details

Word: Endurance

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: The ability to keep going through something hard, painful or tiring for a long time.

Synonyms: stamina, staying power, perseverance, toughness

Antonyms: weakness, frailty

How to Spell Endurance

Syllables: en - dur - ance

Tricky part: Endure drops its e before -ance: endur + ance. The ending is -ance with an a, not -ence.

Watch out for: endurence, enduranse, endureance

Memory tip: Endurance ends in -ance like distance, and you need endurance to go the distance.

Usage Examples

Example 1: Climbing Kilimanjaro is a real test of endurance.

Example 2: Camels show great endurance in the desert heat.

Example 3: Her endurance carried her through the long night shift.

Fun Fact

The Iditarod sled-dog race in Alaska covers about 1,600 kilometres of snow and ice, and even the winners usually take more than a week.

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Word Makeup

Only one of these words takes the suffix -ance. Choose it:

-ance

a) exist
b) persist
c) insist
d) endure

Show answer

d) endure. Endure drops its e and becomes endurance, but persist, insist and exist all end in -ence.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word endurance as used in the sentence:

Running the hill race in the June heat took real endurance.

a) talent
b) luck
c) stamina
d) speed

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c) stamina. Endurance is the power to keep going, which is stamina.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

endureance

a) e
b) u
c) r
d) a

Show answer

a) e. The e at the end of endure falls away when -ance is added.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Endurance is most needed for ____.

a) a quick nap
b) a marathon
c) a coin toss
d) a sprint start

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b) a marathon

2. To endure something means to ____.

a) put up with it
b) run away from it
c) forget about it
d) pay for it

Show answer

a) put up with it

Associated Words

adjudgemannersentencecognitiongo-between
astonishedexaltationdesistpunctualitydisinherited

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