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Spell Bee Word: Spend


What does spend mean?

Word: Spend

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Spend means to use money to buy things, or to use time doing something.

Synonyms: use, pay

Antonyms: earn

How do you spell spend?

Syllables: spend

Tricky part: The vowel is e, as in pen and send.

Watch out for: spened, spand

Memory tip: You write down what you spend with a pen, and pen lends spend its e.

Spend in a sentence

Example 1: I spend my Sunday mornings at the park.

Example 2: Don't spend all your pocket money on comics.

Example 3: We spend the summer holidays at Nani's house.

Fun Fact

Spend goes back to the Latin expendere, to weigh out money, the same root that gives us expensive.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

spend

a) lend
b) buy
c) waste
d) save

Show answer

d) save. Saving money means keeping it, which is the opposite of spending it.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) spennd
b) borrow
c) purchase
d) expensive

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a) spennd. Spend has only one n; borrow, purchase and expensive are spelt correctly.

Word Makeup

Choose the prefix that completes the word:

spend

a) over
b) ovre
c) ovar
d) ouver

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a) over. To overspend is to spend more than you have, and the prefix is over, as in overflow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ravi had Rs 50 and came home from the fair with Rs 30. How much did he spend?

a) Rs 50
b) Rs 30
c) Rs 20
d) Rs 80

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c) Rs 20

2. Only one of these is about spending time, not money. Which one?

a) How much did you spend at the fair?
b) We spend an hour reading every night.
c) Try not to spend too much on sweets.
d) We spend Rs 10 on a pencil.

Show answer

b) We spend an hour reading every night.

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