What does evaporate mean?
Word: Evaporate
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Evaporate means to change from a liquid into a gas, usually because of heat, as water does when a wet floor dries.
How do you spell evaporate?
Syllables: e - vap - o - rate
Tricky part: The o in the middle is hard to hear, so pupils write evaperate. Others borrow the u of vapour and write evapourate.
Watch out for: evaperate, evapourate
Memory tip: Vapour lends this word its o, but leave the u of vapour behind.
Evaporate in a sentence
Example 1: Our science teacher left a saucer of water on the windowsill to watch it slowly evaporate.
Example 2: Perfume evaporates quickly, which is why its smell spreads across a room so fast.
Example 3: Cover the pot, or much of the water will evaporate before the rice is cooked.
Fun Fact
Sweating cools you down because the sweat takes heat away from your skin as it evaporates.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
ev_por_te
a) e, a
b) a, e
c) o, a
d) a, a
Show answer
d) a, a. The same letter fills both gaps: a.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
evaporate
a) condense
b) fade
c) disappear
d) vanish
Show answer
a) condense. When water vapour cools and turns back into drops on a cold glass, it condenses.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The puddles on our school playgrownd evaporate quickly once the sun comes out.
a) quickly
b) playgrownd
c) puddles
d) evaporate
Show answer
b) playgrownd. Ground is spelt with ou, as in round.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) atmosfere
b) evaporate
c) temperature
d) moisture
Show answer
a) atmosfere. Atmosphere uses ph for its f sound.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Clothes on a line dry because the water in them evaporates. Where does that water go?
a) back into the tap
b) down into the soil
c) inside the clothes pegs
d) into the air as vapour
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d) into the air as vapour
2. Salt is made from seawater in shallow pans along the Gujarat coast. What happens to the water?
a) it is boiled in kettles
b) the sun dries it away
c) it is filtered through sand
d) it is frozen into ice
Show answer
b) the sun dries it away
