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Spell Bee Word: Full moon


What does full moon mean?

Word: Full moon

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Full moon means the moon when its whole face is lit up and it looks like a complete round disc.

How do you spell full moon?

Syllables: full moon

Tricky part: As a word on its own, full ends in a double l. It is only when ful is a suffix, as in beautiful, that one l is dropped.

Watch out for: fullmoon, full moone, ful moon

Memory tip: Think of the two l's of full as two tall lamp posts, both lit up by the full moon.

Full moon in a sentence

Example 1: On the night of the full moon, the whole beach looked silver.

Example 2: Our village fair is always held on the night of the full moon.

Example 3: We sat on the terrace and watched the full moon rise.

Fun Fact

The full moon nearest the start of autumn, in September or early October, is called the harvest moon, because its light once let farmers in Europe bring in crops late into the evening.

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Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) sunlite
b) moonbeem
c) daybrake
d) full moon

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d) full moon. The other three each have a wrong second half: light, beam and break.

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

full moon

a) new moon
b) moonrise
c) moonlight
d) moonbeam

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a) new moon. At new moon the moon's face is dark, the very opposite of a full moon.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The full mune lit up the path to our farmhouse.

a) path
b) mune
c) lit
d) farmhouse

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b) mune. Moon is spelt with a double o.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often does a full moon come round?

a) every night
b) about once a week
c) twice a year
d) about once a month

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d) about once a month

2. Which festival falls on a full moon day?

a) Guru Purnima
b) Janmashtami
c) Ganesh Chaturthi
d) Diwali

Show answer

a) Guru Purnima

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