Basic Details
Word: Respect
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: A feeling of admiring someone for their good qualities; also polite care for people, rules or things. As a verb, to treat someone with that care.
Synonyms: regard, honour, esteem, admiration
Antonyms: disrespect, contempt, scorn
How to Spell Respect
Syllables: re - spect
Tricky part: The end is c-t. Students write respeck or respekt because they hear a k.
Watch out for: respekt, respeck, rispect
Memory tip: Spect means look, as in spectacles. When you respect someone, you look up to them.
Idioms and Phrases
- pay your respects: to visit someone or greet them politely as a mark of respect Example: "We went to pay our respects to the new head of the village."
Usage Examples
Example 1: The students have great respect for their science teacher.
Example 2: Show respect to the elderly by offering them your seat on the metro.
Example 3: Out of respect, everyone stood still for the national anthem.
Fun Fact
In her 1967 song Respect, the American singer Aretha Franklin spelt the word out letter by letter, R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word: respect
a) esteem
b) contempt
c) honour
d) admiration
Show answer
b) contempt. Contempt is the feeling that someone is worthless, the reverse of respect.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The crowd stood in silence to show their respekt for the brave soldiers.
a) silence
b) soldiers
c) crowd
d) respekt
Show answer
d) respekt. Spect, the part that means look, is written with a c.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) respect
b) apparant
c) sincerly
d) independant
Show answer
a) respect. Sincerely keeps its e, independent ends in ent and apparent does too.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. You show respect for a speaker by ____.
a) listening without interrupting
b) walking out
c) talking to a friend
d) yawning loudly
Show answer
a) listening without interrupting
2. 'Out of respect for the rules, Arnav waited for the green signal.' Here respect means ____.
a) fear of
b) boredom with
c) anger at
d) care for
Show answer
d) care for
