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Spell Bee Word: Spleen

Spleen (noun): a soft organ near the stomach that filters the blood and helps the body fight infection.

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What does spleen mean?

Word: Spleen

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Spleen means a soft organ near the stomach that filters the blood and helps the body fight infection.

How do you spell spleen?

Syllables: spleen

Tricky part: The long e sound is written ee. Splean is a common mistake.

Watch out for: splean, splene

Memory tip: The spleen sits close to the stomach, and its two e's sit close together in the middle of the word.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. vent your spleen: to show your anger openly. Example: "The angry customer vented his spleen at the shopkeeper over the broken fan."

Spleen in a sentence

Example 1: The spleen is roughly the size of a clenched fist.

Example 2: The doctor pointed to the spleen on a chart of the human body.

Example 3: In biology class we learnt that the spleen is part of the body's defence against germs.

Fun Fact

People can live without a spleen, because the liver and other organs can take over much of its work.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) diaphragm
b) spleene
c) pancreas
d) intestine

Show answer

b) spleene. Spleen has no e at the end; the double e sits in the middle.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

lepens

a) steeple
b) spleen
c) splendour
d) sleepy

Show answer

b) spleen. Sleepy, steeple and splendour each call for a letter the jumble lacks (y, t, d); spleen uses exactly these six.

Word Cookie

Fill in the missing letters to complete the word:

sp_ee_

a) r, n
b) r, m
c) l, m
d) l, n

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d) l, n. The word starts spl and ends een.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On which side of the belly is the spleen found?

a) the upper left
b) the lower right
c) the upper right
d) the lower left

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a) the upper left

2. Which cells does the spleen remove from the blood when they grow old?

a) skin cells
b) red blood cells
c) bone cells
d) nerve cells

Show answer

b) red blood cells

Associated Words

More Class 6 Summer Spell Bee words starting with s: stratosphere, shuttle, sandpaper, seer, superior, sculptor

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