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Spell Bee Word: Graduate


What does graduate mean?

Word: Graduate

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Graduate means a person who has finished a course at a university or college. To graduate is to finish your studies and receive a degree.

How do you spell graduate?

Syllables: grad - u - ate

Tricky part: After grad comes a u. Children often write gradiate or gradjuate.

Watch out for: gradiate, gradjuate

Memory tip: Say grad-you in your head: the you sound after grad is just the letter u.

Graduate in a sentence

Example 1: My cousin will graduate from IIT Madras next year.

Example 2: She is a science graduate who now teaches in our school.

Example 3: The graduates threw their caps high into the air.

Fun Fact

At some universities, the ceremony where graduates receive their degrees is called a convocation.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) degre
b) graduate
c) colege
d) univercity

Show answer

b) graduate. University needs si, not ci; college has two l's; degree ends in ee. Graduate is already correct.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

graduatte

a) d
b) t
c) a
d) u

Show answer

b) t. There is only one t near the end.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

My elder cousin became a graduete after four years of hard study.

a) cousin
b) study
c) graduete
d) elder

Show answer

c) graduete. Its end sounds like late and is spelt the same way.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

draugeat

a) gradaute
b) garduate
c) graduate
d) gradutae

Show answer

c) graduate. Grad comes first; then look for the u.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which person is most likely to be a graduate?

a) a doctor who studied for years
b) a puppy playing in a park
c) a baby learning to walk
d) a boy just starting Class 1

Show answer

a) a doctor who studied for years

2. After a graduate's name you may see letters such as ____.

a) Mon or Tue
b) km or kg
c) B.Sc. or B.A.
d) Jan or Feb

Show answer

c) B.Sc. or B.A.

Associated Words

Words that end in -ate: educate, calculate, imitate, delicate, congratulate, activate

More words from this list

knock, oatmeal, respect, struggle, adapt, bookworm, complain, dramatist

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