What does resound mean?
Word: Resound
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Resound means to fill a place with sound, or to be filled with sound.
Synonyms: echo, ring
Word origin: Formed in English in the Middle Ages, modelled on Latin resonare.
How do you spell resound?
Syllables: re - sound
Tricky part: The s here is said like a z, so rezound is a common slip.
Watch out for: rezound, rezownd
Memory tip: Music can resound through a building, and the two words share a z sound spelt with s.
Resound in a sentence
Example 1: The school drums resound across the quiet valley at noon.
Example 2: Laughter will resound through the house when the cousins arrive.
Example 3: The referee's whistle resounded across the empty ground.
Fun Fact
A resounding win makes no noise at all: the adjective resounding has come to mean very great, as in a resounding success.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Fusion
Choose the two parts that make a word meaning 'to fill a large space with echoing noise':
1. re 2. pro 3. ex 4. found 5. sound 6. pound
a) 3 and 6
b) 1 and 5
c) 1 and 4
d) 2 and 4
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b) 1 and 5. The other pairs give words about depth of thought and explaining, or no word at all.
Sound Check
In which word is 'ou' pronounced differently?
a) couplet
b) foundry
c) resound
d) counsel
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a) couplet. Couplet has the short vowel of cup; the others have the ow of cow.
Word Puzzle
Match each word with its synonym:
1. resound 2. glimmer 3. linger a. remain b. shine faintly c. reverberate
a) 1-a, 2-b, 3-c
b) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c
c) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b
d) 1-c, 2-b, 3-a
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d) 1-c, 2-b, 3-a. Drumbeats reverberate, a candle may glimmer, and guests who linger remain after the others go.
Word Tally
Each word below has lost one letter. How many have lost the letter e?
rsound, thundr, murmr, rumbl, whispr
a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 5
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c) 4. Only murmur has lost a different letter, a u.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Applause resounded through the auditorium. What does this tell you?
a) the clapping was polite and very brief
b) only the front row clapped at the end
c) the clapping stopped as the singer began
d) the clapping was loud and carried everywhere
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d) the clapping was loud and carried everywhere
2. In which place would a shout resound the most?
a) a crowded clothes shop
b) a carpeted bedroom
c) a small wooden cupboard
d) an empty stone hall
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d) an empty stone hall
