What does response mean?
Word: Response
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Response means an answer or a reaction to something that someone says or does.
Synonyms: answer, reaction
Antonyms: question
How do you spell response?
Syllables: re - sponse
Tricky part: Students know defence and silence, so they finish this one with ce. Response takes nse instead.
Watch out for: responce, responze, respons
Memory tip: A response can be a simple yes: like yes, it uses an s, not a c, and then adds a quiet e.
Response in a sentence
Example 1: The teacher smiled at Tanvi's clever response.
Example 2: There was a huge response to the tree-planting drive on our estate.
Example 3: I sent the message an hour ago but have not got a response yet.
Fun Fact
In music, call and response is when one singer sings a line and a group sings an answer back.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Our class wrote to the mayor about the broken swings and got a kind resonse.
a) resonse
b) swings
c) broken
d) mayor
Show answer
a) resonse. Said fast, the p after the s gets swallowed, but it is still written.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
nopsseer
a) reopens
b) responds
c) persons
d) response
Show answer
d) response. Persons and reopens are a letter short, and responds needs a d.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word: response
a) request
b) reply
c) reason
d) record
Show answer
b) reply. A reply is a response to what someone has said.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) response
b) queston
c) answer
d) message
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b) queston. Question has an i before the on; response, answer and message are spelt correctly.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. If you get no response to a letter, it means ____.
a) nobody has written back
b) the letter was too long
c) the stamp was the wrong one
d) the post office is shut
Show answer
a) nobody has written back
2. Kavi gave a quick response to his friend's text. He ____.
a) replied a week later
b) answered it within a minute
c) never answered it
d) forgot to reply
Show answer
b) answered it within a minute
