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Spell Bee Word: Recent


What does recent mean?

Word: Recent

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Recent means happening or made only a short time ago.

Synonyms: new, latest, fresh

Antonyms: old

How do you spell recent?

Syllables: re - cent

Tricky part: The s sound in the middle is spelt with a c, not an s. Children who spell by sound often get this wrong.

Watch out for: reasent, reecent, resint

Memory tip: Recent things are only a few days back on the calendar: let the c of calendar remind you that recent has a c, not an s.

Recent in a sentence

Example 1: Have you seen the recent photos from Grandma's birthday?

Example 2: A recent survey found that most students walk to our school.

Example 3: In recent years, more people have started cycling to work.

Fun Fact

Scientists call the most recent stretch of Earth's history, which began about 11,700 years ago, the Holocene.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

recent

a) sudden
b) modern
c) current
d) ancient

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d) ancient. Ancient things are very old, the opposite of recent; modern and current are close to it.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

r_c_nt

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

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c) e, e. Say re-cent: both beats have an e, as in moment.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) recent
b) libary
c) promiss
d) beleive

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a) recent. Library has an r after the b, promise ends in ise, and believe has ie after the l.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which item is the most recent?

a) a photo from 1990
b) last year's diary
c) last month's magazine
d) yesterday's newspaper

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d) yesterday's newspaper

2. Which invention is recent?

a) the smartphone
b) the printing press
c) paper
d) the wheel

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a) the smartphone

Associated Words

Words that end in -cent: innocent, adjacent, magnificent, adolescent, effervescent

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: new, fresh

More words from this list

spread, unsure, archery, communicate, disrespect, gain, javelin, nickel

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