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Spell Bee Word: Olive


What does olive mean?

Word: Olive

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Olive means a small green or black fruit with a hard stone inside. Olive oil is pressed from it.

How do you spell olive?

Syllables: ol - ive

Tricky part: The end sounds like iv, but olive keeps a silent e at the end. Children often write oliv.

Watch out for: oliv, oliev, olivv

Memory tip: Olive hides a silent e at its end, the way an olive hides its stone inside.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. hold out an olive branch: To offer to make peace after a fight. Example: "Riya held out an olive branch and shared her crayons after the quarrel."

Olive in a sentence

Example 1: Ma sometimes cooks with olive oil.

Example 2: Dadi does not like the salty taste of olives.

Example 3: An olive tree has thin, silvery leaves.

Fun Fact

Olive is also the name of a colour, a dull yellowish green.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) ulive
b) ollive
c) oalive
d) olive

Show answer

d) olive. Olive starts with a plain o and has just one l.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

tree, flower, ____, oil

a) olive
b) wheat
c) milk
d) sugar

Show answer

a) olive. The tree flowers, the flowers turn into fruit, and that fruit is pressed to make oil.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Ma put a black oleve on my plate.

a) plate
b) put
c) black
d) oleve

Show answer

d) oleve. The vowel after the l in olive is i.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

oli_e

a) f
b) b
c) s
d) v

Show answer

d) v. The buzzing sound near the end of olive is a v, not an f.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An olive has a hard stone inside. So does ____.

a) a banana
b) a mango
c) a pineapple
d) a strawberry

Show answer

b) a mango

2. Which food is often topped with olives?

a) kheer
b) pizza
c) ice cream
d) jalebi

Show answer

b) pizza

Associated Words

Words that end in -ive: five, forgive, active, drive, dive, arrive

More words from this list

rider, stem, watermelon, banana, cave, dentist, forget, joyful

Next steps

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