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Spell Bee Word: journey


Basic Details

Word: Journey

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Travelling from one place to another, usually over a long distance.

Synonyms: trip, voyage, travel

How to Spell Journey

Syllables: jour - ney

Tricky part: Journey starts like journal, with jour, and it finishes with ey, not y or ee.

Watch out for: jurney, journy, jorney, journee

Memory tip: A journEY needs a kEY: before you leave, you lock the house, and both words end in e-y.

Usage Examples

Example 1: The train journey from Delhi to Chennai takes more than a day.

Example 2: Dadi packed puris and mango pickle for the long bus journey.

Example 3: Arctic terns make very long journeys between the far north and the far south every year.

Fun Fact

Journey comes from the old French word journee, which meant a day's work or a day's travel.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

journey

a) halt
b) voyage
c) arrival
d) rest

Show answer

b) voyage. A voyage is a long trip, usually by sea; arrival, halt and rest are about stopping.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

journeey

a) e
b) o
c) y
d) u

Show answer

a) e. Only one e sits before the final y.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) destinasion
b) journey
c) pasenger
d) pilgrimmage

Show answer

b) journey. Destinasion should end in tion, pilgrimmage has one m too many, and pasenger is one s short.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is the longest journey?

a) home to school by bus
b) Mumbai to London by plane
c) the kitchen to the bedroom
d) one end of the park to the other

Show answer

b) Mumbai to London by plane

2. Which sentence uses journey correctly?

a) I journey my homework.
b) Please journey the door.
c) She journeyed the cake.
d) The journey to Shimla took eight hours.

Show answer

d) The journey to Shimla took eight hours.

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