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Spell Bee Word: extinct


Basic Details

Word: Extinct

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: No longer living anywhere on Earth, as with dinosaurs. A volcano that will never erupt again is also called extinct.

Synonyms: vanished, died out, lost

Antonyms: living, surviving, existing

How to Spell Extinct

Syllables: ex - tinct

Tricky part: The c before the final t is hardly heard, so it is often dropped (extint). There is no s after the x.

Watch out for: extint, extinkt, exstinct

Memory tip: Extinct and distinct end in the same five letters, tinct, with a c tucked in before the final t.

Usage Examples

Example 1: Dinosaurs became extinct about 66 million years ago.

Example 2: Cheetahs were declared extinct in India in 1952, and some were brought from Africa in 2022.

Example 3: The hill near the town is an extinct volcano that last erupted thousands of years ago.

Fun Fact

The dodo, a flightless bird found only on the island of Mauritius, became extinct in the late 1600s, less than a hundred years after sailors first reached it.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word: extinct

a) vanished
b) living
c) lost
d) ancient

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b) living. Extinct creatures have all died out; living ones still exist.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

exstinct

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

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d) s. The x already gives the ks sound, so extinct needs no s.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) extinct
b) distinkt
c) succint
d) instint

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a) extinct. Extinct keeps the c before its final t, a letter each of the others has lost or changed.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If a kind of animal is extinct, ____.

a) they live only in zoos
b) they are asleep for winter
c) they have moved to a new forest
d) none of them are alive anywhere

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d) none of them are alive anywhere

2. Which of these is extinct?

a) the Bengal tiger
b) the house sparrow
c) the Indian elephant
d) the woolly mammoth

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d) the woolly mammoth

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