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Spell Bee Word: Placid


What does placid mean?

Word: Placid

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Placid means peaceful and not easily upset or excited.

Synonyms: peaceful, serene

Antonyms: excitable, agitated

How do you spell placid?

Syllables: plac - id

Tricky part: The c is soft and says s. Plasid and plassid are the slips to avoid.

Watch out for: plasid, plassid

Memory tip: Placid borrows the soft c of ice and juice: that c hisses like an s, so no s is written.

Placid in a sentence

Example 1: The lake was placid in the early morning.

Example 2: Our old cow is so placid that children can pat her.

Example 3: Even when the bus broke down, the driver stayed placid.

Fun Fact

Lake Placid, a small village in New York State, hosted the Winter Olympic Games twice, in 1932 and 1980.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

dilcap

a) plastic
b) placid
c) plaid
d) acidic

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b) placid. Plaid has no c, plastic needs an s and a t, and acidic has no l or p.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

pl_c_d

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

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a) a, i. Say plas-id: pl takes a short a, and id closes the word.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

placid

a) noisy
b) eager
c) calm
d) grumpy

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c) calm. A placid person or lake is calm and still.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) tranquill
b) peacful
c) placid
d) silance

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c) placid. Tranquil ends in one l, peaceful is peace plus ful, and silence ends in ence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Name the thing that is usually placid.

a) a crowded railway station
b) a pond on a still day
c) a storm at sea
d) a barking dog

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b) a pond on a still day

2. A placid baby on a long train ride would most likely ____.

a) sleep or play quietly
b) cry for the whole trip
c) kick and scream at every stop
d) refuse to sit down

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a) sleep or play quietly

Associated Words

Words that start with pla: plantation, plausible, placement, plankton, playground, plateau

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: serene, excitable, agitated

More words from this list

scramble, watchmaker, bacterium, collaborative, daredevil, endangered, havoc, lightning

Next steps

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