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Spell Bee Word: vacancy


Basic Details

Word: Vacancy

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: A job or position that nobody is doing yet, or an empty room in a hotel or guest house.

Synonyms: opening, vacant post

How to Spell Vacancy

Syllables: va - can - cy

Tricky part: There are two c's: the first sounds like k, the second like s. Students write vacansy or double the first c.

Watch out for: vacansy, vaccancy, vacancey

Memory tip: Change the t at the end of vacant into cy: vacan(t) + cy. Constant and constancy follow the same pattern.

Usage Examples

Example 1: The bank has a vacancy for a cashier at its new branch.

Example 2: Every guest house in Darjeeling had a No Vacancy board during the puja holidays.

Example 3: Our school filled the vacancy for a music teacher in June.

Fun Fact

Vacancy comes from the Latin vacare, to be empty, which also gave English vacant, vacate and vacation.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to complete the word:

va_an_y

a) k, c
b) s, c
c) c, c
d) c, s

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c) c, c. Both missing letters are c, one sounding like k and one like s, just as in vacant and fancy.

Mingle-Mangle

Unjumble the letters in the sentence to form a meaningful word:

By late evening the small hotel near the lake had only one cnvaacy left.

a) vacancy
b) valency
c) vacant
d) vagrancy

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a) vacancy. A hotel with one room free has one vacancy, and the two c's in the jumble settle it.

Word Connection

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

The hospital has a vacancy for a night nurse in its children's ward in Kochi.

a) holiday
b) opening
c) salary
d) crowd

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b) opening. An opening is a job waiting to be filled, which is what the hospital has.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If a hotel sign says No Vacancy, it means ____.

a) all the rooms are full
b) food is not served
c) the staff are away
d) the lift is broken

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a) all the rooms are full

2. Which word is the adjective related to vacancy?

a) vacant
b) vague
c) vacuum
d) vacate

Show answer

a) vacant

Associated Words

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