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Spell Bee Word: legislative


Basic Details

Word: Legislative

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: To do with making laws. A legislative body, like Parliament or a state assembly, is a group that makes laws.

Synonyms: law-making

How to Spell Legislative

Syllables: leg - is - la - tive

Tricky part: The pattern is leg-is-la-tive: an i after the g, then an a after the second l. Children often write legeslative or legislitive.

Watch out for: legeslative, legislitive, legistlative, ledgislative

Memory tip: Legal and legislative both start with leg, from the Latin word for law. Then say it slowly: leg-is-la-tive.

Usage Examples

Example 1: Each state has its own Legislative Assembly where MLAs debate new laws.

Example 2: Our student council has no legislative power; it can only suggest rules to the principal.

Example 3: The legislative branch makes the laws, while the courts interpret them.

Fun Fact

Only a few Indian states, such as Maharashtra, Karnataka and Bihar, have a Legislative Council as a second house; most states have just a Legislative Assembly.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

leg_sl_tive

a) i, i
b) e, a
c) e, i
d) i, a

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d) i, a. Say it in parts, leg-is-la-tive, and the i and a fall into place.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) assembely
b) legislative
c) administrasion
d) democrasy

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b) legislative. Administration ends in tion, assembly has no e after the b, and democracy ends in cy.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

visatellige

a) legitimate
b) legislative
c) legislature
d) investigate

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b) legislative. Leg, is, la and tive can be pulled out of the jumble one after another.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who sits in a state's Legislative Assembly?

a) bank clerks
b) MLAs
c) judges
d) pilots

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b) MLAs

2. Legislative work is mainly about ____.

a) building roads
b) running trains
c) making laws
d) teaching classes

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c) making laws

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