What does experience mean?
Word: Experience
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Experience means what you learn by doing something again and again, or something that happens to you.
Synonyms: skill, event
How do you spell experience?
Syllables: ex - pe - ri - ence
Tricky part: It ends in ience, not iance, though the end sounds like ans.
Watch out for: experiance, experence, experiense
Memory tip: Gain your experience in the science lab: experience and science end in the same five letters.
Experience in a sentence
Example 1: Our first train ride to Scotland was an experience I will never forget.
Example 2: The driver has ten years of experience.
Example 3: You learn from experience when you make mistakes.
Fun Fact
Experience and experiment come from the same Latin verb, experiri, which meant to try or to test.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) adventure
b) patience
c) expirience
d) knowledge
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c) expirience. After the p comes an e, not an i: ex-pe-ri-ence.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
neicrepexe
a) expensive
b) experience
c) excellence
d) existence
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b) experience. Four e's and no s or l among the letters point to experience.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word: experience
a) practice
b) laziness
c) weakness
d) silence
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a) practice. Years of practice and years of experience both mean you have done something many times.
Word Makeup
Choose the prefix that completes the word:
experience
a) dis
b) in
c) un
d) im
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b) in. In gives the opposite, inexperience, as in inactive.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A shop wants to hire a driver with experience. Who is most suitable?
a) Someone who has driven for five years
b) Someone who has just bought a car
c) Someone who has read a driving book
d) Someone who wants to learn to drive
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a) Someone who has driven for five years
2. In which sentence is experience used as a verb?
a) Her experience helped the team win.
b) That ride was quite an experience.
c) He has no experience of cooking.
d) Many tourists experience the cold in Ladakh.
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d) Many tourists experience the cold in Ladakh.
