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Spell Bee Word: Gloves


What does gloves mean?

Word: Gloves

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Gloves means coverings for your hands, with a separate place for each finger. Gloves keep hands warm or safe.

How do you spell gloves?

Syllables: gloves

Tricky part: The vowel sounds like the u in sun, but it is spelt o.

Watch out for: gluves, gleves

Memory tip: Picture a round hole in your glove shaped like an o: that is the vowel, though it sounds like u.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. handle with kid gloves: To treat someone very gently and carefully. Example: "Grandpa was upset, so we handled him with kid gloves all evening."

Gloves in a sentence

Example 1: Wear your woollen gloves when we go to Shimla.

Example 2: The doctor put on fresh gloves before checking my ear.

Example 3: One of my gloves is missing, so my left hand is cold.

Fun Fact

In cricket, the batter and the wicketkeeper both wear padded gloves to protect their hands from the hard ball.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) glovs
b) glovez
c) gloves
d) glovess

Show answer

c) gloves. Most naming words take a plain s for more than one; here a quiet e comes first.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

svgelo

a) glevos
b) gloves
c) glvoes
d) golves

Show answer

b) gloves. Glvoes, golves and glevos cannot be read as the word for what keeps hands warm.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

glo_es

a) f
b) w
c) v
d) z

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c) v. The buzzy middle sound is a v, as in seven.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

glloves

a) l
b) g
c) s
d) o

Show answer

a) l. Gloves starts with gl and has only one l.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gloves with one place for the thumb and one for all the fingers are called ____.

a) mittens
b) socks
c) mufflers
d) sleeves

Show answer

a) mittens

2. Who needs thick gloves for the job?

a) a child eating lunch
b) a singer on a stage
c) a gardener cutting rose bushes
d) a teacher reading a book

Show answer

c) a gardener cutting rose bushes

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with g: grandmother, grandfather, gather, garment, gravity, guest

More words from this list

invite, motorcycle, queue, soap, trousers, ambulance, careful, dive

Next steps

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