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Spell Bee Word: wreck


Basic Details

Word: Wreck

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Something that has been badly damaged or destroyed, especially a ship, car or plane; as a verb, to damage something badly.

Synonyms: ruin, wreckage, crash

How to Spell Wreck

Syllables: wreck

Tricky part: There is a silent w at the start and ck at the end. Students write rek or wrek.

Watch out for: wrek, rek, wreek

Memory tip: A wreck has a silent w in front, as in wrist and write, and ck at the back, as in crack - a wreck is usually cracked.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. a nervous wreck: someone who is extremely worried or upset Example: "Waiting for the results made Priya a nervous wreck."

Usage Examples

Example 1: The heavy rain turned our garden into a wreck.

Example 2: Divers took photographs of the wreck lying off the coast.

Example 3: Don't wreck the sandcastle your sister built.

Fun Fact

The wreck of the Titanic lies almost 4 kilometres down in the Atlantic Ocean and was found only in 1985, 73 years after the ship sank.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) riggle
b) wreck
c) rist
d) rench

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b) wreck. Wrist, wrench and wriggle all begin with a silent w that has been left out here.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

wreck

a) polish
b) build
c) ruin
d) repair

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c) ruin. To wreck a toy is to ruin it.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

A team from Goa explored the wrek of an old Portuguese ship on the seabed.

a) Portuguese
b) seabed
c) wrek
d) team

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c) wrek. The word ends in ck, like neck and deck.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If you wreck a toy, you ____.

a) wrap it up
b) damage it badly
c) clean it
d) buy it

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b) damage it badly

2. A shipwreck happens when a ship ____.

a) is painted
b) reaches port safely
c) is destroyed at sea
d) is being built

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c) is destroyed at sea

Associated Words

devaluetechnicaluneasyflorabridal
crossoverimportancemiserableauralsteadily

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