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Spell Bee Word: Garbage


What does garbage mean?

Word: Garbage

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Garbage means things that are thrown away because they are not wanted, such as food scraps and wrappers. Garbage is the usual word in American English and in India; British English usually says rubbish.

Synonyms: rubbish

How do you spell garbage?

Syllables: gar - bage

Tricky part: The end sounds like 'bij' but is spelt bage. Children write garbej or garbidge.

Watch out for: garbej, garbidge

Memory tip: Old cabbage goes in the garbage. Cabbage and garbage share the same ending, bage.

Garbage in a sentence

Example 1: Please put the empty packets with the rest of the garbage in the rubbish bin.

Example 2: The bin lorry collects the garbage from our lane every morning.

Example 3: We keep wet garbage and dry garbage in separate bins.

Fun Fact

More than 500 years ago, garbage meant the parts of a bird or animal that cooks cut out and threw away.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: garbage

a) harvest
b) treasure
c) luggage
d) waste

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d) waste. Waste is what is left over and thrown out, just like garbage.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) messege
b) garbage
c) sausige
d) vilage

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b) garbage. Village is missing an l, and sausage and message have the wrong vowel before ge; garbage is spelt right.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

begraga

a) garbage
b) ragbage
c) grabage
d) agrbage

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a) garbage. The word starts with gar, as in garden.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

garrbage

a) b
b) a
c) g
d) r

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d) r. Garbage has one r, before the b.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these should go in the wet garbage bin?

a) vegetable peels
b) an empty bottle
c) a plastic wrapper
d) old newspapers

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a) vegetable peels

2. Why should we not throw garbage into rivers?

a) it makes the water dirty
b) it helps the fish grow
c) it keeps the water cool
d) it makes the river wider

Show answer

a) it makes the water dirty

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