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Spell Bee Word: mood


Basic Details

Word: Mood

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: The way you feel at a particular time, such as happy, cross or calm. It can also mean the feeling a place, story or piece of music gives.

Synonyms: temper, humour, frame of mind

How to Spell Mood

Syllables: mood

Tricky part: The long oo sound is spelt with a double o, and nothing follows the d. Students who know rude and mode sometimes tack on a silent e.

Watch out for: moode, muud, moud

Memory tip: The two o's in mood look like two eyes: happy or sad, they show your mood.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. in the mood for: feeling like doing or having something. Example: "I am not in the mood for a film; I would rather play carrom."

Usage Examples

Example 1: Mum is in a good mood because her plants have started flowering.

Example 2: The rainy afternoon set a sleepy mood in the classroom.

Example 3: Soft flute music changed the mood of the whole party.

Fun Fact

Grammar has moods too. The imperative mood gives orders, as in 'Shut the door', while the indicative mood states facts.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the word closest in meaning to mood as used in the sentence:

Grandfather was in a cheerful mood after his morning walk around the lake.

a) spirits
b) opinion
c) routine
d) appetite

Show answer

a) spirits. To be in a cheerful mood is to be in cheerful spirits.

Word Makeup

Only one of these words takes the suffix y to form an adjective. Choose it.

y

a) mood
b) glad
c) calm
d) grief

Show answer

a) mood. Mood + y gives moody; griefy, calmy and glady are not English words.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

After losing the final by just two runs, the whole team sat in a gloomy moode on the long bus ride home.

a) gloomy
b) moode
c) final
d) ride

Show answer

b) moode. Mood ends with the double o and a d; there is no silent e after it.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Someone in a bad mood is most likely to ____.

a) snap at others
b) hug everyone
c) sing happily
d) laugh at every joke

Show answer

a) snap at others

2. The mood of a ghost story is usually ____.

a) silly and cheerful
b) loud and festive
c) calm and sleepy
d) tense and scary

Show answer

d) tense and scary

Associated Words

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expectationsyntaxsaleswomaninterpretationrecently

Next steps

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