What does selection mean?
Word: Selection
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Selection means the act of choosing someone or something from a group; also a range of things to choose from.
Synonyms: choice, pick, range, assortment
How do you spell selection?
Syllables: se - lec - tion
Tricky part: There is only one l, so sellection is wrong, and the sh sound at the end is spelt with ct before ion, so selecsion and selektion are slips.
Watch out for: sellection, selecsion, selektion
Memory tip: Picture a selection box of sweets with just one lollipop in it: one l in selection.
Selection in a sentence
Example 1: The sweet shop near the station has a huge selection of laddoos and barfis.
Example 2: The library's new selection of comics disappeared from the shelves in a day.
Example 3: Choosing the selection of songs for the farewell party took our class a whole hour.
Fun Fact
Charles Darwin used the phrase natural selection in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species to explain how living things change over many generations.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Only one of these root words does NOT take the suffix -ion to form a noun. Choose it:
ion
a) connect
b) choose
c) inspect
d) select
Show answer
b) choose. Select, connect and inspect all add -ion, but the noun of choose is choice.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
s_l_ction
a) i, e
b) e, e
c) e, a
d) a, e
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b) e, e. The vowels of the first two syllables, se and lec, are both e.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of selection as used in the sentence:
His selection for the under-14 hockey squad came after a week of tough trials.
a) invitation
b) decision
c) promotion
d) rejection
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d) rejection. Being turned down after the trials would be rejection; a decision, a promotion or an invitation is not the opposite of being chosen.
Spell-o-Spell
Three words in the list are spelt correctly. Choose the meaning of the misspelt word:
1. variaty 2. category 3. preference 4. selection
a) a group of things of the same type
b) liking one thing more than another
c) a number of different kinds
d) picking out the ones you want
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c) a number of different kinds. Variety has an ie after the r, so variaty is the misspelt word; selection, preference and category are correct.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A shop with a wide selection of shoes has ____.
a) plenty of styles on offer
b) shoes for children only
c) only one kind of shoe
d) no shoes on sale today
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a) plenty of styles on offer
2. A selection committee is a group that ____.
a) sells tickets for cricket matches
b) builds new playgrounds for schools
c) chooses people for a team or post
d) repairs the buses of a school
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c) chooses people for a team or post
