Words that start with S

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Sis forSix

There are six coloured eggs in the picture. The number before six is five. The number that comes after six is seven.

Numbers

Bonita de Boer / CC BY-SA

Sis forSixth

Something is sixth if it is the number sixth item in a list. Sixth comes after fifth and before seventh.

Ordinal numbers

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Sis forSize

Size is a measure of how big something is. You can measure size in defined units like inches, or you can use descriptive words like big, small, tiny or huge.

Measures

Aaron Stidwell / CC BY-SA

Sis forSizzle

Sizzling is the sound of cooking something in fat or oil at fairly high temperatures, like cooking bacon or sausages.

Sounds

Rene Mensen / CC BY-SA

Sis forSkate

A skate might be another word for a ice skate or roller skate. It might also describe the action of gliding over a surface wearing some kind of skates. Someone who skates is a skater.

Verbs

Mike Baird / CC BY-SA

A skateboard is a piece of wood with wheels underneath. You stand on the skateboard and push with one foot to make it go forwards, or just stand on it if you are on a slope. People can do lots of tricks on skateboards, like jumping and twisting. On a large skateboard ramp people can even flip right over in the air.

Vehicles, Toys and games

Rene Mensen / CC BY-SA

Sis forSkater

A skater is someone who skates, either on ice skates, roller skates or on a skateboard. People might skate just for fun, or professionally for money.

Jobs

Gidzy / CC BY-SA

Sis forSkein

A skein is a name for a flock of geese or ducks when they are flying in a line or V.

Collective

Jim Linwood / CC BY-SA

Sis forSkeleton

Your skeleton is made up of a number of bones, which hold you up. Your bones are connected to each other by joints, such as your knee and elbow, which let you move around. The skeleton in the picture is a cat skeleton.

Body parts