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Spell Bee Word: Picture


What does picture mean?

Word: Picture

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Picture means a painting or drawing of something or someone, or an image made with a camera.

Synonyms: image, drawing

How do you spell picture?

Syllables: pic - ture

Tricky part: The end sounds like cher, but it is spelt t, u, r, e.

Watch out for: picher, pikchur

Memory tip: Picture ends the same way as nature and furniture.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. get the picture: to understand a situation Example: "Once Ma saw the broken vase and the ball, she got the picture."

Picture in a sentence

Example 1: I drew a picture of our house with a mango tree.

Example 2: Grandpa keeps an old picture of his school in his wallet.

Example 3: There is a picture of a tiger on the cover of my book.

Fun Fact

Rock shelters at Bhimbetka in Madhya Pradesh have pictures of animals and people painted thousands of years ago.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) colour
b) pikture
c) paint
d) camera

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b) pikture. The k sound in picture is spelt with c, as in pick.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

picture

a) frame
b) photo
c) colour
d) story

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b) photo. A photo is a picture taken with a camera.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tpucrie

a) ipcture
b) cipture
c) picture
d) pciture

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c) picture. Say the word aloud: only one order matches its sounds.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

p_cture

a) a
b) i
c) e
d) u

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b) i. The vowel here is the short i of pin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Neha wants a picture of the sunset to keep. Which of these can she use?

a) a whistle
b) a kettle
c) a camera
d) a torch

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c) a camera

2. Meera hung her picture in the hall so that everyone could ____ it.

a) see
b) taste
c) smell
d) hear

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a) see

Associated Words

Words that end in -ture: furniture, vulture, structure, adventure, moisture, feature

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: image, drawing

More words from this list

selfish, sweatshirt, workbook, bookmark, cousin, firm, helmet, long

Next steps

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