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Spell Bee Word: Endure


What does endure mean?

Word: Endure

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Endure means to put up with something painful or hard for a long time, or to last a long time.

Synonyms: tolerate, survive, last

Antonyms: give up, quit

How do you spell endure?

Syllables: en - dure

Tricky part: It starts with en, as end does, and finishes with a quiet e: endure, not endur.

Watch out for: endur, enduer, indure

Memory tip: You endure a long, hard race right to the end, and endure starts with the same two letters as end.

Endure in a sentence

Example 1: Camels can endure many days in the desert without water.

Example 2: We had to endure a long wait at the railway station.

Example 3: Old stone forts like Golconda have endured for hundreds of years.

Fun Fact

Endure goes back to the Latin indurare, to make hard. In Old French, endurer could mean both to harden and to put up with.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: endure

a) flee
b) hide
c) bear
d) rest

Show answer

c) bear. To bear pain is to put up with it, which is what endure means.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Desert plants can endour long months without a single drop of rain.

a) endour
b) single
c) Desert
d) months

Show answer

a) endour. There is no o in this word; the middle sound is spelt with u alone.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) pashence
b) endure
c) strenth
d) tollerate

Show answer

b) endure. Tolerate has one l, strength needs a g before th and patience is spelt with ti, so endure is the correct one.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What might a mountain climber have to endure?

a) A clear view from the top
b) A hot meal at the base camp
c) Freezing winds near the summit
d) A good night's sleep in the tent

Show answer

c) Freezing winds near the summit

2. A runner who can endure a very long race has plenty of...

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

Show answer

b) stamina

Associated Words

Words that end in -ure: pleasure, assure, manufacture, signature, literature, mature

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: survive, last

More words from this list

halibut, maintenance, physics, retreat, surfing, whittle, barnacle, crossword

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