What does misjudge mean?
Word: Misjudge
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Misjudge means to form a wrong opinion about a person, or to guess an amount or distance wrongly.
How do you spell misjudge?
Syllables: mis - judge
Tricky part: A d is hidden before the g, and you can hardly hear it. Leaving it out is the slip children make most.
Watch out for: misjuge, misjugde
Memory tip: D comes before G in the alphabet, and it comes before g in this word too.
Misjudge in a sentence
Example 1: It is easy to misjudge someone you have met only once.
Example 2: I misjudged the speed of the ball and swung too early.
Example 3: Drivers can misjudge the width of a narrow lane.
Fun Fact
Cricket commentators often reach for this word: when a fielder runs in too far under a high catch, they say the fielder misjudged it.
Practise the CREST Way
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
dujgmeis
a) midnight
b) mileage
c) misjudge
d) mustard
Show answer
c) misjudge. The jumble has a j, and not one of the other three words does.
Word Makeup
Choose the prefix that completes the word:
____judge
a) miss
b) mise
c) misse
d) mis
Show answer
d) mis. Mis means wrongly, and it has one s, as in mistake.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) estimate
b) suppose
c) misjudg
d) consider
Show answer
c) misjudg. Without the silent letter at the end, this word is left unfinished.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
m_sj_dge
a) y, u
b) i, u
c) e, u
d) i, a
Show answer
b) i, u. A short i comes after the m, and the vowel before the d is the u of fudge.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Anil thought the new boy was rude, but he was only shy. What did Anil do?
a) he kept a close watch
b) he made a kind remark
c) he gave helpful advice
d) he formed an unfair view
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d) he formed an unfair view
2. A player misjudges a long kick and the ball sails over his head. What went wrong?
a) he kicked with his weaker foot
b) he stood in the wrong spot
c) he forgot the rules of the game
d) he wore the wrong pair of boots
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b) he stood in the wrong spot
