Basic Details
Word: Expected
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Thought that something would happen or that someone would come; also required, as in what is expected of you.
Synonyms: predicted, anticipated, awaited, foreseen
Antonyms: unexpected, surprising
How to Spell Expected
Syllables: ex - pect - ed
Tricky part: Because x already sounds like ks, some students add an s and write exspected, or swap the c for a k. The word is ex + pect + ed.
Watch out for: exspected, expekted, expectid
Memory tip: Expected has spect, as in spectacles and inspect, words linked with looking. When you expected someone, you were looking out for them.
Usage Examples
Example 1: The train expected at six reached the station only at nine.
Example 2: We expected heavy rain, so we carried umbrellas to school.
Example 3: Students are expected to wear their ID cards on campus.
Fun Fact
Life expectancy in India, the number of years a newborn baby is expected to live on average, has risen from about 32 years around 1947 to about 70 years today.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Only one of these words is spelt correctly. Choose its meaning:
1. suspicous 2. inspecter 3. expected 4. spectaculer
a) very impressive to look at
b) a person who checks that rules are followed
c) thought likely to happen
d) feeling that someone may have done something wrong
Show answer
c) thought likely to happen. Expected is correct; inspector ends in or, suspicious needs an i before ous, and spectacular ends in ar.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
exspected
a) s
b) t
c) p
d) c
Show answer
a) s. Ex already gives the ks sound, so pect follows it straight away.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word expected as used in the sentence:
The monsoon is expected to reach Kerala in the first week of June.
a) prevented
b) forgotten
c) refused
d) predicted
Show answer
d) predicted. Predicted means said in advance that it will happen, which is the sense of expected here.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is expected of a goalkeeper?
a) to stop shots at goal
b) to sell the tickets
c) to referee the match
d) to sing the anthem
Show answer
a) to stop shots at goal
2. An expected guest is one who ____.
a) was invited and is awaited
b) never comes at all
c) has already left
d) turns up by surprise
Show answer
a) was invited and is awaited
