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Spell Bee Word: Plunder


What does plunder mean?

Word: Plunder

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Plunder means to take a lot of things from a place without any right to them, often by force, as pirates do in old stories.

Synonyms: raid

How do you spell plunder?

Syllables: plun - der

Tricky part: The ending is der, as in wonder, not dar or dur.

Watch out for: plundur, plundar

Memory tip: Picture three monkeys in a row on a branch, d, e and r, guarding the fruit they have plundered.

Plunder in a sentence

Example 1: The monkeys plundered our picnic basket while we were at the lake.

Example 2: My little brother plundered the biscuit tin when nobody was looking.

Example 3: In the storybook, the pirates plunder a ship full of gold coins.

Fun Fact

English borrowed plunder from the German word plundern in the 1600s; at first it meant carrying off household goods.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: plunder

a) give
b) build
c) loot
d) guard

Show answer

c) loot. To loot is to steal goods by force, the same as plunder.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

dulnerp

a) lpunder
b) pulnder
c) plunder
d) plnuder

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c) plunder. Pulnder, plnuder and lpunder all scramble the first four letters.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) baskit
b) sqirrel
c) mischif
d) plunder

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d) plunder. Basket, mischief and squirrel are misspelt here, so plunder is right.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

pl_nder

a) e
b) a
c) u
d) o

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c) u. The first vowel is u, the same sound as in under.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the monkeys plundered the fruit stall, it was ____.

a) full of new fruit
b) freshly painted
c) busy with shoppers
d) nearly empty

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d) nearly empty

2. In 'The squirrels hid their plunder under the tree', plunder means ____.

a) friends to play with
b) things taken without asking
c) water for a drink
d) leaves for a nest

Show answer

b) things taken without asking

Associated Words

economistdispleasureengineerwristbandcampfire
dedicationchefrubbishbinocularexpensive

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