What does glower mean?
Word: Glower
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Glower means to look at someone in an angry way, usually without saying anything.
Synonyms: scowl, frown
How do you spell glower?
Syllables: glow - er
Tricky part: The ow here sounds like the ow of how, so students are tempted to write ou.
Watch out for: glouer, glauer, gloower
Memory tip: Picture someone saying "how now" with a frown: the same ow spells the sound in this word.
Glower in a sentence
Example 1: The old cat would glower at anyone who sat in its chair.
Example 2: Nikhil began to glower when his turn on the swing was over.
Example 3: She glowered at the rain through the window, her picnic plans ruined.
Fun Fact
Nobody is quite certain where glower came from, but it seems to have begun in Scots, the old speech of lowland Scotland.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word glower as used in the sentence:
Sit down quietly instead of standing there to glower at your brother.
a) glare
b) smile
c) stare
d) squint
Show answer
b) smile. A smile is a friendly look, the opposite of an angry one.
Mingle-Mangle
Rearrange the jumbled letters in the sentence to form the right word.
Grandfather would owgerl at us over his spectacles whenever we giggled during his afternoon nap.
a) glower
b) glimmer
c) gather
d) glance
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a) glower. The letters include w, o and r, and none of the other three words has all of those.
Word Cookie
Fill in the missing letters to complete the word:
g_ow_r
a) l,a
b) l,e
c) r,a
d) l,o
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b) l,e. A g and an l open the word, and it closes with er, as flower does.
Spell-o-Spell
One of these words is spelt right. Pick the meaning of that word.
1. vigilent 2. ambigous 3. glower 4. frugel
a) having more than one meaning
b) careful about spending money
c) to stare crossly without speaking
d) watching out with great care
Show answer
c) to stare crossly without speaking. Frugal ends in al, vigilant in ant, and ambiguous needs a u before the ous.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A goalkeeper glowers at a defender after a goal. What is the defender likely to think?
a) He blames me for what happened.
b) He thinks the game is already over.
c) He wants to thank me for my help.
d) He has not noticed the goal at all.
Show answer
a) He blames me for what happened.
2. Which detail in a story best shows a character glowering?
a) Her brows were drawn low and her eyes never left him.
b) Her head dropped and she was soon fast asleep.
c) Her feet tapped along to the cheerful music.
d) Her hands flew up and she laughed out loud.
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a) Her brows were drawn low and her eyes never left him.
