What does imagination mean?
Word: Imagination
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Imagination means the ability to form pictures and new ideas in your mind, including things you have never seen.
Synonyms: fancy, inventiveness, vision
How do you spell imagination?
Syllables: i - mag - i - na - tion
Tricky part: There is only one m, though students often double it (immagination).
Watch out for: immagination, imaginasion
Memory tip: I Make A Guess: the first four letters of imagination, with one m.
Imagination in a sentence
Example 1: Jonah's imagination ran wild as Grandpa told stories of the old fort.
Example 2: You need imagination to turn a cardboard box into a spaceship.
Example 3: The writer never tells us what was in the box; she leaves that to the reader's imagination.
Fun Fact
Imagination, image and imitate all trace back to Latin words built on the idea of a copy or likeness.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
imag_nat_on
a) e, i
b) a, i
c) i, e
d) i, i
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d) i, i. Both gaps take i: the i of imagin and the i of tion.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
imagination
a) patience
b) creativity
c) memory
d) precision
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b) creativity. Coming up with new ideas is creativity; precision is about being exact.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) originallity
b) daydreaming
c) curiosity
d) imagination
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a) originallity. Originality has a single l.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
mgniiaoatni
a) imitation
b) imagination
c) magnification
d) indignation
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b) imagination. Magnification has an f, indignation a d, and imitation is three letters short with no g.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which activity depends most on imagination?
a) reading a meter
b) writing a fairy tale
c) counting coins
d) copying a timetable
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b) writing a fairy tale
2. If something is described as 'a figment of your imagination', it ____.
a) is hard to carry
b) is very old
c) is not real
d) is very expensive
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c) is not real
