What does survive mean?
Word: Survive
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Survive means to stay alive through danger, illness or hard times. It can also mean to keep going or to last.
Synonyms: live, endure, last
Antonyms: die
How do you spell survive?
Syllables: sur - vive
Tricky part: The first part is sur, not ser, and the word ends in ive with a silent e.
Watch out for: servive, survieve, surviv
Memory tip: Look at the end, vive: v, i, v, e. The second half starts and finishes its sound with a v.
Survive in a sentence
Example 1: Only a few hardy plants can survive the cold at the top of the Himalayas.
Example 2: Only one of Grandpa's school photographs has survived all these years.
Example 3: The old banyan tree in our village has survived for more than two hundred years.
Fun Fact
Tiny animals called tardigrades, or water bears, can survive being dried out completely and come back to life when water returns.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
survive
a) escape
b) perish
c) recover
d) rescue
Show answer
b) perish. Perish means to die; you might escape, be rescued or recover and still be alive.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) oxygen
b) shelter
c) survive
d) enviroment
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d) enviroment. Environment has an n before the m: environ, then ment.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
vivruse
a) curves
b) survivor
c) revive
d) survive
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d) survive. Revive leaves an s, u and r spare, curves needs a c and survivor an o; survive uses every letter.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The little cactus can survive for weeks without watter.
a) cactus
b) watter
c) survive
d) weeks
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b) watter. Water has only one t; the other three words are spelt right.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What helps a camel survive in the desert?
a) drinking only sea water
b) storing fat in its hump
c) having thick black fur
d) sleeping through the winter
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b) storing fat in its hump
2. What do most plants need to survive?
a) salt and sand
b) ice and wind
c) darkness and smoke
d) water and sunlight
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d) water and sunlight
