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Spell Bee Word: Glass


What does glass mean?

Word: Glass

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Glass means a hard, clear material that you can see through, used for windows and bottles. A glass is also a cup made of it for drinking.

How do you spell glass?

Syllables: glass

Tricky part: Glass ends with a double s, like miss and kiss.

Watch out for: glas, glase

Memory tip: Think of a pair of glasses on a nose: two lenses, and two s's at the end of glass.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. people who live in glass houses should not throw stones: Do not blame others for a fault you have yourself. Example: "Arjun told Neha off for being late, but he is often late himself; people who live in glass houses should not throw stones."

Glass in a sentence

Example 1: Please pour me a glass of water.

Example 2: We watched the rain through the glass window.

Example 3: Grandma keeps her buttons in an old glass jar.

Fun Fact

Glass is made by melting sand at a very high heat and then letting it cool.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) glaas
b) glass
c) gless
d) gluss

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b) glass. Glass has one a, the short a of cat.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

glass

a) spoon
b) plate
c) saucer
d) tumbler

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d) tumbler. A tumbler is a drinking glass with a flat bottom and no handle.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Please fill my glasse with cold milk.

a) glasse
b) fill
c) milk
d) cold

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a) glasse. There is no e at the end of glass.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

g_ass

a) l
b) h
c) w
d) n

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a) l. Glass begins with gl, as glue does.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why should you be careful with a glass bottle?

a) It can break easily.
b) It can rust in water.
c) It can bend like rubber.
d) It can melt in the sun.

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a) It can break easily.

2. Glass is used to make ____.

a) sweaters
b) pencils
c) footballs
d) mirrors

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d) mirrors

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with g: garlic, grape, gallery, gull, grow, giant

More words from this list

lemonade, pebble, scissors, tall, young, belt, chin, dress

Next steps

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