What VOUCH means
Give personal assurance; guarantee.
That is the short version. Read on for how to say VOUCH, how to use it, and a quick way to make it stick.
VOUCH at a glance
- Word: VOUCH
- Part of speech: verb
- Pronunciation: /vaʊtʃ/
- Meaning: Give personal assurance; guarantee.
- Example: Will he vouch for me?
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How to say VOUCH
Pronunciation: /vaʊtʃ/
Part of speech: verb
Say VOUCH out loud a few times. Hearing your own voice say a new word is one of the fastest ways to remember both its sound and its meaning. Try saying it slowly first, then at normal speed, then inside a full sentence. If a part of the pronunciation trips you up, slow down on that part alone before putting the whole word back together.
VOUCH in a sentence
Will he vouch for me?
Notice how VOUCH fits into that sentence as verb. Try swapping in your own subject and see if the sentence still makes sense. If it does, you have understood the meaning of VOUCH, not just memorized it.
Ways to remember VOUCH
A new word sticks better when you do something with it, not just read it.
Say it, then use it. Repeat VOUCH once, then build one sentence of your own with it today.
Connect it to something you know. Think of a moment from your own week where VOUCH could apply, even loosely.
Spell it out. Cover the word, spell VOUCH from memory, then check. This catches the letters your eyes skipped over the first time.
Come back tomorrow. A word reviewed a day later is far more likely to stay than one read once and left.
Notice it in the wild. Once you know VOUCH, you will start spotting it in things you read. Each time you notice it, the meaning gets a little more solid.
Play a board with VOUCH
A definition is easier to keep once you have used the word under a little pressure. Try today's word game, or search for more words like VOUCH with the word finder. Missed a word along the way? The vocabulary quiz is a quick way to check what stuck, and missed words come back around for review instead of disappearing.
For teachers and parents
This page works well as a quick reference before a lesson or a homework check. Look up a word, read the definition and example together, then ask the student to build a new sentence with it. A student who can use VOUCH correctly in a sentence they made up has learned it. One who can only repeat the definition back has not, yet.
A quick classroom routine: put VOUCH on the board, cover the definition, and ask the class to guess the meaning from the example sentence alone. Reveal the real definition after a few guesses. It takes a minute and gets students reasoning about context clues instead of just memorizing.
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The letters in VOUCH
- Length: 5 letters
- Vowels: 2 (O, U)
- Different letters: 5, all different
- First letter: V, last letter: H
Words built from the same letters
- TOUCH: The event of something coming in contact with the body.