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Spell Bee Word: Ligament

Ligament (noun): a strong band of tissue that holds two bones together at a joint.


What does ligament mean?

Word: Ligament

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Ligament means a strong band of tissue that holds two bones together at a joint.

How do you spell ligament?

Syllables: lig - a - ment

Tricky part: The middle vowel is a, though it is spoken very lightly, and students often write e there.

Watch out for: ligement, ligamment, legament

Memory tip: Picture the a in the middle as a strong band tying the two halves of the word together, just as a ligament ties two bones.

Ligament in a sentence

Example 1: The footballer does exercises to keep the ligaments in his knees strong.

Example 2: Ligaments join bone to bone, while tendons join muscle to bone.

Example 3: Warming up before a race helps protect your ligaments.

Fun Fact

The anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, inside the knee helps keep the knee steady when players twist and turn in sports like football and basketball.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) skeleton
b) muscle
c) ligamint
d) cartilage

Show answer

c) ligamint. Ligament ends in ment, as moment does.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

gnetamil

a) alignment
b) gelatin
c) filament
d) ligament

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d) ligament. Alignment needs a second n and filament an f, and gelatin would leave the m behind.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Before the long jump, Hannah stretched to warm up each liggament in her knee, as her coach had shown her.

a) coach
b) stretched
c) knee
d) liggament

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d) liggament. Lig has a single g, like big.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where in the body are ligaments found?

a) in the hair
b) in the fingernails
c) in the teeth
d) at the joints

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d) at the joints

2. Ligament comes from the Latin ligare, to tie or bind. Which word shares this root?

a) oblige
b) obey
c) object
d) oblong

Show answer

a) oblige

Associated Words

Words that end in -ment: disbursement, enchantment, requirement, adjustment, enrolment, amendment

More words from this list

pastor, seismology, undergraduate, adversarial, blemish, continuous, elude, gravitational

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