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Spell Bee Word: Monumental


Basic Details

Word: Monumental

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Very great in size, effort or importance. It can also mean relating to a monument.

Synonyms: huge, enormous, massive

Antonyms: tiny, trivial, minor

How to Spell Monumental

Syllables: mon - u - men - tal

Tricky part: The word ends in al, not el or le. Everything before that is monument, spelt exactly as usual.

Watch out for: monumentel, monumentle, monumantal

Memory tip: Monument + al, with no change at the join. A monumental task is one as big as building a monument.

Usage Examples

Example 1: Clearing the flood mud from the school took a monumental effort from the whole village.

Example 2: Leaving his passport at home was a monumental mistake.

Example 3: The old temple has monumental stone gates carved with elephants.

Fun Fact

The Statue of Unity in Gujarat, opened in 2018, stands 182 metres tall and is counted as the tallest statue in the world.

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Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word monumental as used in the sentence:

Building the new dam across the river was a monumental task that took ten years.

a) enormous
b) huge
c) trivial
d) colossal

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c) trivial. A trivial task is small and unimportant, the reverse of a ten-year project.

Word Makeup

Only one of these words takes the suffix al. Choose it:

al

a) payment
b) statement
c) movement
d) monument

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d) monument. Monument + al makes monumental; paymental, statemental and movemental are not words.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

mon_m_ntal

a) u, e
b) o, a
c) o, e
d) u, a

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a) u, e. Monument keeps its lone u and its ment when al joins the end.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A monumental mistake is one that is ____.

a) very big
b) made by a builder
c) easy to correct
d) made on purpose

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a) very big

2. Which phrase uses monumental in its sense of very great?

a) a monumental achievement
b) a monumental pencil
c) a monumental whisper
d) a monumental crumb

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a) a monumental achievement

Associated Words

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