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Spell Bee Word: period


Basic Details

Word: Period

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: A length of time; also one lesson in a school timetable. In American English it also means a full stop.

Synonyms: span, era, spell, term

How to Spell Period

Syllables: pe - ri - od

Tricky part: The vowels come in the order e, i, o. Writing quickly, many students swap the last two and type peroid.

Watch out for: peroid, periud, pirod

Memory tip: Break it into pe + ri + od. The three vowels, e, i and o, are in alphabetical order.

Usage Examples

Example 1: We have a free period after lunch on Fridays.

Example 2: The Mughal period gave India many famous buildings.

Example 3: For a short period, the shop was closed for repairs.

Fun Fact

Period comes from the Greek periodos, a going round or a cycle, made from peri, around, and hodos, way.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) semister
b) period
c) intervel
d) centuary

Show answer

b) period. Interval ends in al, semester has an e after the m, and century has no a.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

oderip

a) perish
b) poised
c) parade
d) period

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d) period. Perish and poised need an s, and parade needs two a's.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The third peroid on Monday is our favourite because we play basketball.

a) favourite
b) Monday
c) third
d) peroid

Show answer

d) peroid. Say pe-ri-od slowly: i comes before o.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A school period is usually ____.

a) a kind of pencil
b) a school bag
c) a whole year
d) one lesson in the timetable

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d) one lesson in the timetable

2. 'The Stone Age was a long period.' Here period means ____.

a) a lesson
b) a stone
c) a stretch of time
d) a dot

Show answer

c) a stretch of time

Associated Words

equationabhorlaxativeategeneration
trailexpeditionchroniclecompostpathogen

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