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Spell Bee Word: Excited


What does excited mean?

Word: Excited

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Excited means very happy and full of energy because something good is going to happen.

Synonyms: thrilled, eager

Antonyms: calm

How do you spell excited?

Syllables: ex - cit - ed

Tricky part: The x and c come together. Leave out the c and you get exited, which means went out.

Watch out for: exsited, ecxited, eksited

Memory tip: In excited, the x does the ks sound and the c does the s sound straight after it: ex-cit-ed. Each letter has its own job.

Excited in a sentence

Example 1: I was excited about the school picnic.

Example 2: The children got excited when the bus came.

Example 3: Kavya was too excited to sleep before her birthday.

Fun Fact

Long before it meant happy, excite meant to stir up or wake. It goes back to the Latin excitare, to call out.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

excited

a) early
b) hungry
c) clever
d) bored

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d) bored. An excited person is full of energy; a bored person is not interested at all.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) excieted
b) excitied
c) excitid
d) excited

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d) excited. Excited keeps every letter of excite and then adds d.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

excitted

a) c
b) x
c) d
d) t

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d) t. Excite has one t, so excited has one t too.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tcedxie

a) exctied
b) excietd
c) excitde
d) excited

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d) excited. Start with ex, keep the c right after the x, and end with ed.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does an excited puppy often do?

a) fall fast asleep
b) hide under the bed
c) refuse its food
d) wag its tail fast

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d) wag its tail fast

2. When people are excited, they often ____.

a) yawn and stretch
b) clap and cheer
c) speak very softly
d) sit very still

Show answer

b) clap and cheer

Associated Words

Words that end in -ted: delighted, exhausted, agitated, disappointed

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: thrilled, eager, calm

More words from this list

hairy, lazy, packet, sandstorm, stiff, weather, barn, classmate

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