i won the spelling bee in my school! [yay!]
but i was just wondering, why would you need the definition to figure out how to spell the word?
any tips to help me win the spelling bee in my county?
2007-01-09 13:30:58 · 10 answers · asked by m11y. 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
It's really weird that you won considering you spelled competition wrong.
2007-01-09 15:50:25 · answer #1 · answered by Mom of Three 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good on you!
It's true that you don't always necessarily need to know what a word means in order to be able to spell it - but, it's all under the heading of 'learning new words and meanings' and building on your knowledge, so try to absorb as much as you can.
Did you have words like: accommodate, privilege, definitely, separate, development, criticism, desperate, continuous, sacrilege, sentence ?
2007-01-09 13:52:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A definition is often given to distinguish homophones such as horse and hoarse or aisle and isle. Sometimes it even makes it easier to remember the spelling of the word.
2007-01-09 13:41:00 · answer #3 · answered by HDsnowlover 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Asking for the definition is usually a stalling tactic to give you more time to mull over the spelling!
2007-01-09 14:38:13 · answer #4 · answered by Sherry K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because some word can sound the same but be different heres a really dimply one!!
See or Sea
If you get that one wouldn't u like to here the def!!!
2007-01-09 15:20:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
congrayz you need a defintion because there are words that sounds alike like
bare and bear. and if you spell hte wrong word you got it wrong.
2007-01-09 13:41:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
congrats. Pronounciate the word. learn greek and latin roots. reed a dictionary cover to cover(300 pages or more).
2007-01-09 13:40:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i know, right! this is what my teacher taught me: it is better to have a connotation of what the word means than to have the dennotation.
connotation - it comes to mind. it is more like the way YOU see it not the dictionary
dennotation - literal dictionary defenition
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2007-01-09 13:35:48 · answer #8 · answered by gratzie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Am relay happy for you.
2007-01-09 13:35:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋