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Spell Bee Word: Roar


What does roar mean?

Word: Roar

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Roar means to make a loud, deep sound, like a lion or a tiger. The sound itself is also called a roar.

How do you spell roar?

Syllables: roar

Tricky part: Roar keeps all four of its letters when you add ing or ed: roaring, roared. Do not double the r and write roarring.

Watch out for: roarring, roarr

Memory tip: Think of a roaring lion: the whole word roar sits at the front of roaring, with nothing changed.

Roar in a sentence

Example 1: The lion gave a loud roar.

Example 2: We heard the crowd roar when India hit a six.

Example 3: The tiger began to roar in the forest.

Fun Fact

A lion's roar can be heard up to about 8 kilometres away.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) rore
b) roer
c) rour
d) roar

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d) roar. Roar has o first and then a, like boat.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

aorr

a) orar
b) roar
c) rroa
d) raor

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b) roar. The lion's sound begins and ends with r.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

roaer

a) e
b) a
c) r
d) o

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a) e. Take out the e and the lion's sound is left.

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

roar

a) yell
b) shout
c) howl
d) whisper

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d) whisper. A roar fills the whole forest; a whisper can hardly be heard.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Besides big cats, which of these can make a roar?

a) a flute
b) thunder
c) a kitten
d) a clock

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b) thunder

2. Where could your class go to hear a lion roar?

a) a zoo
b) a post office
c) a bakery
d) a library

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a) a zoo

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with r: rich, read, ride, reply, rice, release

More words from this list

story, whistle, barber, chair, destroy, fourteen, June, opera

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