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Spell Bee Word: Nourish


What does nourish mean?

Word: Nourish

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Nourish means to give a person, animal or plant the food and care it needs to grow strong and healthy.

How do you spell nourish?

Syllables: nour - ish

Tricky part: The first part sounds like 'nur', but it is spelt with our, which children often shorten to ur.

Watch out for: nurish, norish

Memory tip: Courage and nourish share the same trick: both say a short u sound but write our.

Nourish in a sentence

Example 1: Farmers add compost to nourish the soil.

Example 2: Milk and fruit nourish our bodies.

Example 3: A good story can nourish a child's imagination.

Fun Fact

Nourish, nurse and nutrition all come from the same Latin word, nutrire, which was used for giving food and care.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: nourish

a) carry
b) feed
c) borrow
d) follow

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b) feed. To feed a plant or a pet is to give it the food it needs.

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

nourish

a) mant
b) mint
c) ment
d) mend

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c) ment. Nourishment, the food that keeps you healthy, takes the same ending as enjoyment.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rushino

a) nourish
b) nourshi
c) nourihs
d) nourhis

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a) nourish. The start is the same in all four; only one closes with a sound you can say.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) protein
b) vitamin
c) harvest
d) nourich

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d) nourich. Vitamin, protein and harvest are spelt right; nourich has the wrong ending.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which meal would best nourish a growing child?

a) a handful of sugary sweets
b) a glass of fizzy drink
c) a packet of salty crisps
d) a plate of dal, rice and vegetables

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d) a plate of dal, rice and vegetables

2. Rain and sunshine nourish the paddy fields. What happens to the rice plants?

a) they fall over at once
b) they shrink and turn brown
c) they stop growing
d) they grow tall and green

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d) they grow tall and green

Associated Words

Words that end in -ish: rubbish, astonish, radish, childish, cuttlefish, goldfish

More words from this list

relative, straight, absorb, bold, company, doodle, gardener, junk

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