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Spell Bee Word: Temperature


What does temperature mean?

Word: Temperature

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Temperature means how hot or cold something is, usually measured in degrees. If you have a temperature, your body is hotter than normal because you have a fever.

How do you spell temperature?

Syllables: tem - per - a - ture

Tricky part: The a in the middle is hardly heard when we speak, so children write temprature or tempreture.

Watch out for: temprature, tempreture, tempratur

Memory tip: Lose your temper and your temperature rises. So start with temper, and do not forget the quiet a straight after it.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. run a temperature: to have a fever Example: "Anika stayed home because she was running a temperature."

Temperature in a sentence

Example 1: The nurse checked my temperature and wrote it on a chart.

Example 2: In Shimla the temperature dropped below zero last night.

Example 3: Water boils at a temperature of 100 degrees Celsius.

Fun Fact

A healthy person's body temperature is usually about 37 degrees Celsius, and a reading well above that is a sign of fever.

Practise the CREST Way

Spellacadabra

Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:

tempera____

a) cher
b) tuer
c) chur
d) ture

Show answer

d) ture. The end of temperature is spelt ture, as in picture.

Spell Spies

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) weather
b) breeze
c) temperature
d) clowdy

Show answer

d) clowdy. Cloudy is spelt with ou, as in cloud.

Word Champ

Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?

temperature

a) trumpet
b) treat
c) mature
d) pepper

Show answer

d) pepper. Temperature has only one p, and pepper needs three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which tool measures temperature?

a) a ruler
b) a stopwatch
c) a thermometer
d) a weighing scale

Show answer

c) a thermometer

2. When the temperature rises, the weather gets:

a) warmer
b) darker
c) wetter
d) colder

Show answer

a) warmer

Associated Words

Words that end in -ure: injure, creature, fracture, exposure

More words from this list

woman, brief, cradle, drift, growth, lotion, pole, spell

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