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Spell Bee Word: Pharmacist

Pharmacist (noun): a trained person who prepares and sells medicines and tells people how to take them.

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What does pharmacist mean?

Word: Pharmacist

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Pharmacist means a trained person who prepares and sells medicines and tells people how to take them.

How do you spell pharmacist?

Syllables: phar - ma - cist

Tricky part: The f sound at the start is ph, and the s sound before ist is spelt with a c.

Watch out for: farmacist, pharmasist, pharmicist

Memory tip: Start with ph, as in phone, and let a c make the s sound before ist, just as it does in city.

Pharmacist in a sentence

Example 1: The pharmacist told us to take the cough syrup after meals.

Example 2: Our local pharmacist keeps a list of the medicines my grandfather needs.

Example 3: The pharmacist warned us not to take the medicine on an empty stomach.

Fun Fact

Many hospital pharmacists never stand behind a shop counter: they prepare doses and check that medicines prescribed together are safe.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

ph_rm_cist

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

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d) a, a. It is pharmacy with ist, so the gaps are a and a.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) tablit
b) pharmacist
c) bandaje
d) ointmant

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b) pharmacist. Tablet ends in et, ointment in ent, and bandage has a g.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: pharmacist

a) chemist
b) nurse
c) patient
d) surgeon

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a) chemist. In Britain and some other countries, a chemist is someone who sells medicines.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which paper must a pharmacist see before selling some strong medicines?

a) a lab test report
b) a doctor's prescription
c) an X-ray report
d) a hospital bill

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b) a doctor's prescription

2. Which of these jobs belongs to a surgeon rather than a pharmacist?

a) labelling a bottle of syrup
b) removing an appendix
c) counting out capsules
d) checking a medicine's expiry date

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b) removing an appendix

Associated Words

Words that end in -cist: astrophysicist, geneticist, physicist

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