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Spell Bee Word: Junior


What does junior mean?

Word: Junior

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Junior means younger than someone, or lower in rank or position. As a noun, a junior is a younger person or one with a lower position.

How do you spell junior?

Syllables: ju - ni - or

Tricky part: The ending is ior, not ier or er, and there is no u before the r.

Watch out for: junier, juniour

Memory tip: Junior and senior are a pair, and both end in the same three letters: ior.

Junior in a sentence

Example 1: My cousin is two years my junior.

Example 2: The junior wing of our school has its own playground.

Example 3: Junior KG children sing a song at the school assembly every Friday.

Fun Fact

In the United States, Junior, or Jr., after a man's name shows that he has exactly the same name as his father.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

junior

a) smaller
b) newer
c) shorter
d) senior

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d) senior. A senior is older or higher up, the other end from a junior.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

junnior

a) r
b) n
c) i
d) u

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b) n. Junior has a single n after the ju.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rinjuo

a) junior
b) jonior
c) joonior
d) jhunior

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a) junior. The jumble has one o and a u, and only one option uses exactly those letters.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) junior
b) clasroom
c) uneform
d) libary

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a) junior. The others should be library, classroom and uniform.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If Aman is junior to Ravi at work, Aman ____.

a) earns more than Ravi
b) is Ravi's boss
c) has a lower position than Ravi
d) started work before Ravi

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c) has a lower position than Ravi

2. A junior football team is mainly for ____.

a) younger players
b) the coaches
c) the parents
d) grown-up players

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a) younger players

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