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Spell Bee Word: Modernity


What does modernity mean?

Word: Modernity

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Modernity means the quality of being modern and up to date, with new ideas, styles and machines.

How do you spell modernity?

Syllables: mo - der - ni - ty

Tricky part: The stressed middle is ern, so students who hear it as urn or arn write modurnity or modarnity.

Watch out for: modurnity, modarnity

Memory tip: Modernity starts with the whole word modern, unchanged, so if you can spell modern you already have most of it.

Modernity in a sentence

Example 1: The new airport mixes old Rajasthani art with modernity.

Example 2: Grandpa enjoys modernity, especially video calls with his grandchildren.

Example 3: Jaipur's old forts stand beside signs of modernity like glass shopping malls.

Fun Fact

Historians often date the start of modernity in Europe to around 1500, a time of printing presses, long sea voyages and new science.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

modern____

a) aty
b) itee
c) ety
d) ity

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d) ity. Modern takes ity, just as real becomes reality.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

iedtomnyr

a) modernity
b) monetary
c) dormitory
d) derision

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a) modernity. Dormitory and monetary each need a letter that is missing here, and derision has no m or y.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) advancment
b) progres
c) modernity
d) tecnology

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c) modernity. Technology has ch, advancement keeps the e of advance and progress ends in ss.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

moddernity

a) o
b) d
c) r
d) n

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b) d. There is only one d, straight after mo.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a village, a sign of modernity would be ____.

a) an old banyan tree in the square
b) a mud path beside the fields
c) a new solar-powered water pump
d) a stone well beside an old hut

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c) a new solar-powered water pump

2. The opposite idea to modernity is ____.

a) novelty
b) tradition
c) invention
d) discovery

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b) tradition

Associated Words

Words that end in -nity: fraternity, amenity, community, opportunity, affinity, immunity

More words from this list

psychologist, stern, affable, boisterous, concept, devalue, fade, immune

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