What does evacuate mean?
Word: Evacuate
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Evacuate means to move people out of a place to somewhere safe.
How do you spell evacuate?
Syllables: e - vac - u - ate
Tricky part: The hard middle sound is one c, though pupils often double it and write evaccuate.
Watch out for: evaccuate, evakuate, evaccuatte
Memory tip: One exit, one queue, one c: everyone leaves through it.
Evacuate in a sentence
Example 1: Staff will evacuate the shopping centre for a short safety test at noon.
Example 2: During the Saturday practice drill, rangers calmly helped evacuate the campsite.
Example 3: Everyone knows the route to follow if we have to evacuate the building.
Fun Fact
Before a new airliner carries passengers, its maker must show that everyone on board can evacuate within 90 seconds using only half the exits.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the meaning of the only correctly spelt word:
1. emergancy 2. asemble 3. evacuate 4. ventillate
a) come together in one place
b) send everyone out of a building or area
c) a sudden event that needs quick action
d) let fresh air into a room
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b) send everyone out of a building or area. Evacuate is printed right; emergency, ventilate and assemble are not.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word evacuate as used in the sentence:
Teachers must evacuate the science block whenever the alarm bell rings.
a) repair
b) inspect
c) clear
d) paint
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c) clear. To clear a building is to get everyone out of it.
Mingle-Mangle
Unscramble the jumbled word in the sentence and choose the correct word:
The crew practised how to teaavceu every passenger on the ferry in under ten minutes.
a) evaluate
b) educate
c) evaporate
d) evacuate
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d) evacuate. A c with no l, d, p or r fits evacuate alone.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The wardens rehearsed how to evacuete the crowded sports hall before the inter-school badminton final began on Saturday morning.
a) badminton
b) rehearsed
c) crowded
d) evacuete
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d) evacuete. The ending should be uate; an e has taken the place of the a.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which event might lead a head teacher to evacuate a school building?
a) a change to the timetable
b) a new menu for the canteen
c) a planned fire drill
d) a visit from the mayor
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c) a planned fire drill
2. What should people do when told to evacuate a hall?
a) wait at their desks for further news
b) go back for their bags and coats
c) gather near the stage and sit down
d) walk out calmly by the nearest exit
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d) walk out calmly by the nearest exit
