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Spell Bee Word: Historic


What does historic mean?

Word: Historic

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Historic means important in history, or so important that people will remember it for a long time.

Synonyms: famous, important

How do you spell historic?

Syllables: his - tor - ic

Tricky part: The middle is tor, as in history, though it is said so quickly that it sounds like ter.

Watch out for: histeric, histric

Memory tip: History and historic share their first seven letters; only the ending changes.

Historic in a sentence

Example 1: Our class visited a historic fort in Jaipur.

Example 2: The Dandi March, led by Gandhiji in 1930, was a historic walk to the sea.

Example 3: This historic temple is more than a thousand years old.

Fun Fact

Historic and historical are different: a historic match is one people will never forget, while a historical film is simply set in the past.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) monumant
b) historic
c) anshent
d) herritage

Show answer

b) historic. Ancient has its sh sound spelt ci, so anshent is wrong; monumant and herritage have a slip each too.

Word Makeup

Choose the prefix that completes the word:

historic

a) pra
b) pri
c) pre
d) per

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c) pre. Prehistoric means from the time before history was written down, and pre means before, as in preview.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The guide showed us a historick well inside the old palace.

a) palace
b) historick
c) guide
d) well

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b) historick. Historic ends in a plain ic, with no k after the c.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A historian is a person who ____.

a) builds forts
b) sells old coins
c) studies the past
d) guards museums

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c) studies the past

2. The day India became independent, 15 August 1947, is called a historic day because ____.

a) it was a school holiday
b) the shops shut early
c) it changed the country for ever
d) it was a very hot day

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c) it changed the country for ever

Associated Words

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