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Spell Bee Word: heed


Basic Details

Word: Heed

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: To pay careful attention to advice or a warning and act on it.

Synonyms: mind, obey, note, follow

Antonyms: ignore, disregard

Sounds like: he'd (short for he had or he would)

How to Spell Heed

Syllables: heed

Tricky part: The vowel sound is spelt with a double e, as in need, not ea or a single e.

Watch out for: hede, heede

Memory tip: You need to heed: both words have ee in the middle and d at the end.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. take heed: to be careful and pay attention Example: "Take heed of the signs on the mountain road."

Usage Examples

Example 1: Heed your doctor's advice and rest for a few days.

Example 2: The children heeded the lifeguard and stayed near the shore.

Example 3: If you had heeded my words, you would have carried an umbrella.

Fun Fact

Heed is a very old word; Old English already had it as hedan more than a thousand years ago, and its meaning has hardly changed.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word: heed

a) ignore
b) obey
c) mind
d) follow

Show answer

a) ignore. To ignore advice is to pay it no attention, the opposite of heeding it.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The sailors did not hede the storm warning and set out to sea anyway.

a) warning
b) sailors
c) anyway
d) hede

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d) hede. Heed is spelt with ee in the middle, the same as need and feed.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) procead
b) decreese
c) heed
d) succede

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c) heed. The others should be proceed, succeed and decrease.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If you heed a warning, you ____.

a) pass it on as a joke
b) listen to it and act carefully
c) forget it at once
d) laugh at it

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b) listen to it and act carefully

2. The children heeded the warning about the wet floor. What did they do?

a) ran across it
b) slid on it for fun
c) walked carefully
d) splashed in the water

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c) walked carefully

Associated Words

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Next steps

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