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Spell Bee Word: Treasure


What does treasure mean?

Word: Treasure

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Treasure means a collection of gold, jewels or other valuable things. We also call something we love very much a treasure.

Synonyms: wealth

How do you spell treasure?

Syllables: trea - sure

Tricky part: The short e sound at the start is spelt ea.

Watch out for: tresure, tresher

Memory tip: A treasure chest is heavy, and heavy and treasure both spell the short e sound with ea.

Treasure in a sentence

Example 1: The children dug for treasure in the sandpit.

Example 2: This old photo of my grandparents is my greatest treasure.

Example 3: We followed the map in the treasure hunt at Riya's party.

Fun Fact

Treasure comes, through French and Latin, from the Greek word thesauros, a store of valuable things. The same Greek word gave us thesaurus, a book that is a store of words.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) treasure
b) treazure
c) treajure
d) treashure

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a) treasure. The zh sound in the middle is spelt with a plain s.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Our class found a box of treasur under the banyan tree.

a) banyan
b) under
c) class
d) treasur

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d) treasur. A silent e finishes the word.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

t_easure

a) w
b) r
c) h
d) l

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b) r. Treasure opens with the tr of tree.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

treasure

a) scraps
b) rubbish
c) riches
d) junk

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c) riches. Treasure is made of riches, and the others are things you throw away.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these could be part of a treasure?

a) gold coins
b) old newspapers
c) dry leaves
d) pebbles

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a) gold coins

2. 'This letter is my treasure.' Here, treasure means ____.

a) something very heavy
b) something I want to throw away
c) something I have never seen
d) something very precious to me

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d) something very precious to me

Associated Words

Words that end in -ure: secure, furniture, picture, vulture, future, adventure

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: wealth

More words from this list

alone, canary, dirty, gather, ink, mischief, publish, slide

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