Reading Day 2025

synonym

100

•  What is a synonym for "glad"?

Happy, excited, ecstatic 

200

 What is a word that means the same as "fast"?

swift, speedy, 

300

 Give a synonym for "begin".

start, commence 

400

What is a synonym for "difficult"?

hard, challenging 

500

 What is another word for "accelerate"

increase, rise, expand, swell, climb, intensify, multiply,

Antonym

100

• What is an antonym for "inside"?

outside

200

•  What is the opposite of "light"?

heavy 

300

• $300: Name an antonym for "give".

receive

400

• $400: What is the opposite of "bought"?

sold

500

What is the opposite of interior?

exterior 

Homophone

100

• $100: What do we call words that sound the same but have different meanings?

Homophones

200

• $200: Give the meaning of the pair of  homophone for "wail and whale"?

One is an animal - whale

wail - to cry

300

Spell the homophone for flour

flower

400

• $500: What is the homophone for "write"?

right

500

Spell the homophone for a female sheep called a ewe.

you

Prefixes

100

• $100: What does the prefix "un-" mean?
• 
  

not

200

• $200: Add a prefix to 'agree" to change its meaning?

dis

300

$300: What does the prefix "im-" mean in "impossible"?

not

400

• $400 Add  a prefix to the root word 'understand" to make a new word?

mis

500

Choose the word that is not a prefix?

1. misspell

2. minute

3. misread

4. misfire 

minute

1 word two meanings

100

• $100: What is a homograph that means to lead or to be in charge?

ruler

200

• $200: Name a homograph that can mean a part of a boat or to tie up.

bow

300

• $300: What is a homograph that means to put in a line or paddle with an oar?

row

400

• $400: Name a homograph that means a part of the upper body or a game we play?

chest

500

Give an homograph that means:

the side of a river or an institution that deposits cash 

bank