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Spell Bee Word: Sacred


What does sacred mean?

Word: Sacred

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Sacred means deeply respected because it is connected with God or a religion.

How do you spell sacred?

Syllables: sa - cred

Tricky part: Sacred and scared use the same six letters in a different order, so they are easy to swap. Sacred begins s-a, like sand.

Watch out for: saycred, seacred

Memory tip: Sacred and scared share the same six letters. Sacred starts sa, like sail; scared starts sc, like scarf.

Sacred in a sentence

Example 1: Old trees in some villages are sacred, so nobody cuts them down.

Example 2: We take off our shoes before entering a sacred place.

Example 3: For Grandpa, Sunday lunch with the whole family is sacred.

Fun Fact

Sacred can describe anything people treat with great respect and do not want spoiled, as when someone says their weekend reading time is sacred to them.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

sacred

a) lucky
b) empty
c) noisy
d) holy

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d) holy. Something holy is treated with deep respect, just like something sacred.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) sacrad
b) sacred
c) sacrid
d) sacrud

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b) sacred. The ending is r-e-d, the colour red.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

sa_red

a) t
b) c
c) s
d) k

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b) c. The hard k sound in sacred is spelt with c.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Grandma says her morning walk is sacred to her. What does she mean?

a) it is boring
b) it is very short
c) it is noisy
d) it is very important to her

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d) it is very important to her

2. Which sentence uses sacred correctly?

a) The puppy was sacred of the rain.
b) I felt sacred in the empty room.
c) The old banyan tree is sacred to the village.
d) Rohan was sacred before his speech.

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c) The old banyan tree is sacred to the village.

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with sa: saucepan, salty, sandy, satchel, sandstorm

More words from this list

steady, banjo, cinema, elbow, grasshopper, kindergarten, observe, rib

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