Basic Details
Word: Reputation
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: What most people think or believe about someone or something, based on what they have done before.
Synonyms: standing, name, character, image
How to Spell Reputation
Syllables: rep - u - ta - tion
Tricky part: The letter after the p is u: rep-u-ta-tion. Students mix it up with repetition and write repitation, or end it with sion.
Watch out for: repitation, reputasion, reputaion
Memory tip: Your reputation is what people repute you to be: keep the u of repute, drop its e and add ation.
Usage Examples
Example 1: The tailor on our street has a reputation for finishing work on time.
Example 2: One careless lie can damage a good reputation.
Example 3: The team arrived with a reputation as the best fielding side in the district.
Fun Fact
The Latin reputare meant to count over or think over, so a reputation began as the total that people reckoned up about you.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Only one of these words is spelt correctly. Choose its meaning:
1. reputation 2. integrety 3. reliabilty 4. responsibilty
a) a duty to take care of something
b) the quality of being trusted to work well
c) what people generally think of someone
d) the quality of being honest
Show answer
c) what people generally think of someone. Responsibility and reliability have each lost an i, and integrity needs an i in place of the e.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word reputation as used in the sentence:
The bakery near our school has a reputation for the softest pav in Pune.
a) owner
b) standing
c) location
d) recipe
Show answer
b) standing. A shop's standing is how highly people rate it, which is what its reputation means.
Word Cookie
Choose the letters that complete the word:
rep_t_tion
a) o, a
b) u, e
c) u, a
d) i, a
Show answer
c) u, a. Think of repute: u comes after the p, then the ation ending supplies the a.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Someone who has 'lived up to their reputation' has ____.
a) done as well as expected
b) moved to a new city
c) forgotten their old friends
d) changed their name
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a) done as well as expected
2. A shop that loses its reputation ____.
a) opens a branch
b) gains new staff
c) loses people's trust
d) lowers its rent
Show answer
c) loses people's trust
