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Spell Bee Word: Tissue

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What does tissue mean?

Word: Tissue

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Tissue means in science, a group of similar cells that work together, such as muscle tissue. It is also a piece of soft, thin paper used to wipe your nose or face.

How do you spell tissue?

Syllables: tis - sue

Tricky part: It ends in ue, as statue and rescue do, so finish with a silent e.

Watch out for: tissu, tissew, tissoo

Memory tip: Imagine a tissue waving goodbye with its final e: you cannot hear it, but it is always there at the end.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. a tissue of lies: A story made up of one lie after another. Example: "His excuse for the missing homework turned out to be a tissue of lies."

Tissue in a sentence

Example 1: Grandma always keeps a packet of tissues in her handbag.

Example 2: Under the microscope we could see the cells in a thin slice of onion tissue.

Example 3: Regular exercise keeps muscle tissue strong.

Next steps

Fun Fact

Biologists group animal tissue into four main types: epithelial, connective, muscle and nervous tissue.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The nurse handed the crying boy a tisue and a glass of water.

a) water
b) tisue
c) nurse
d) crying

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b) tisue. Tissue needs two s's, just like issue.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) membrain
b) cartilege
c) tissue
d) nucleous

Show answer

c) tissue. Cartilage has an a before the ge, membrane ends in ane and nucleus in us; tissue is correct.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word tissue as it is used in this sentence:

Nobody believed his tissue of lies about the broken window.

a) record
b) proof
c) web
d) denial

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c) web. In a tissue of lies the lies are woven together, like threads in a web.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Only one of these is built from many tissues. Which?

a) the heart
b) a yeast cell
c) one bacterium
d) a single amoeba

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a) the heart

2. Tissue paper is the best choice for ____.

a) covering a school textbook
b) making a cardboard box
c) writing an exam answer
d) wrapping a glass ornament

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d) wrapping a glass ornament

Associated Words

More Class 6 Summer Spell Bee words starting with t: tariff, thereafter, tectonic, treasurer, technology, triumphant

More words from this list

accountable, ballerina, concentration, dissertation, fundamental, jeopardy, onward, representative

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