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Spell Bee Word: Sour


What does sour mean?

Word: Sour

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Sour means having a sharp taste, like tamarind or a raw mango.

Synonyms: tangy, sharp

How do you spell sour?

Syllables: sour

Tricky part: The ow sound is spelt ou here, as in mouth and loud.

Watch out for: sauer, sowr

Memory tip: Sour is all about taste, and its o-u is the same pair you find in mouth, where you taste it.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. sour grapes: Pretending you do not want something only because you could not get it. Example: "Saying the prize was boring after losing was just sour grapes."

Sour in a sentence

Example 1: Green raw mangoes are too sour to eat without salt.

Example 2: Grandma adds tamarind to make the sauce a little sour.

Example 3: A gooseberry is a small green fruit that tastes very sour.

Fun Fact

The idiom sour grapes comes from an old fable: a fox cannot reach some grapes, so he says they must be sour anyway.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

sour

a) bitter
b) salty
c) sweet
d) spicy

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c) sweet. Salty, bitter and spicy are other tastes; sweet is the opposite of sour.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) guava
b) papaya
c) orange
d) soure

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d) soure. Sour stops at the r; there is no e after it.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

sou_

a) d
b) w
c) t
d) r

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d) r. Sour ends with the r sound you growl at the end of grr.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The green strawbery tasted very sour.

a) green
b) strawbery
c) tasted
d) sour

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b) strawbery. Strawberry has a double r, as in berry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. You make a face when you bite into something sour, such as ____.

a) a cupcake
b) a toffee
c) a lemon
d) honey

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c) a lemon

2. Milk that has turned sour is ____.

a) cold from the fridge
b) full of sugar
c) warm from the stove
d) old and not fresh

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d) old and not fresh

Associated Words

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: sharp

More words from this list

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Next steps

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