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Commonly Confused Words - Quiz 1
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1. A Christmas treat is ___ pudding.
a. plum
b. plumb
2. A ___ expression mixes both humor and disbelief.
a. rye
b. wry
3. A ___ in shining armor is every girl's dream.
a. night
b. knight
4. A ___ is a female deer.
a. doe
b. dough
5. A ___ is a gadget.
a. device
b. devise
6. A ___ is a narrow passage of water.
a. straight
b. strait
7. A ___ is a type of shellfish.
a. muscle
b. mussel
8. A ___ of children attacked the treats on the picnic table.
a. hoard
b. horde
9. A ___ of water buffalo were resting beside the river when the lions attacked.
a. heard
b. herd
10.A deer can also be called a ___.


a. hart
b. heart
11.A delicious fruit is the French ___.
a. peer
b. pier
c. pear

12.A dolphin and a ___ are similar.
a. porpoise
b. purpose
13.A favorite orange is the ___.
a. naval
b. navel
14.A great ___ burst from her lips as she realized that the child was dead.
a. wail
b. whale
15.A healthy pond should ___ with life.
a. team
b. teem
16.A low mark on one quiz should not have a strong ___ on your grade.
a. affect
b. effect
17.A man of his ___ is impressive.
a. statue
b. stature
c. statute
18.A member of the House of Lords is known as a ___.
a. peer
b. pier
c. pear

19.A place I remember from my childhood is the little brown church in the ___.
a. vale
b. veil
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Commonly Confused Words - Quiz 2
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1. A popular grain for bread and whiskey making is ___.
a. rye
b. wry
2. A popular sport in Hawaii is ___ boarding.
a. serf
b. surf

3. A rank lower than general is ___.
a. colonel
b. kernel
4. A row boat needs at more than one ___.
a. oar
b. ore
c. or
5. A samurai's most valued possession was his ___
a. soared
b. sword
6. A show dog is a thorough __.
a. bread
b. bred
7. A single ___ dropped on to her cheek.
a. tear
b. tier
8. A skunk smells its own ___ first.

a. scent
b. sent
c. cent
9. A snowy owl ___ upon mice, rabbits and other small animals.
a. praise
b. prays
c. preys
10.A son is a ___ child.
a. mail
b. male
11.A vein of gold in a mine is known as the mother ___.
a. load
b. lode
12.A wheel ___ is someone who fixes or makes wheels.
a. right
b. rite
c. wright
d. write
13.A wild pig is also known as a ___.
a. boar
b. bore

14.A woman can become a ___ or a priest in the Anglican Church.
a. known
b. none
c. nun
15.After all that I have been ___, you want me to give this up?
a. thorough
b. through
16.After she passed the bar exam she began to ___ as a lawyer in New York

a. practice
b. practise.
17.All those opposed should say ___.
a. nay
b. neigh
18.All was ___ at the farm on the night before the storm.
a. quiet
b. quite
19.Although she was untidy, April did not complain because she was a ___ friend.
a. dear
b. deer
20.Always try to buy low and ___ high.
a. sell
b. cell
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Commonly Confused Words - Quiz 3
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1. An ___ is a pot or vessel.
a. urn
b. earn
2. An area of land without trees is a ___.
a. step
b. steppe
3. Andrew ___ his bicycle to school every day.
a. road
b. rode
c. rowed

4. Apple sauce is a nice ___ to roast pork.
a. complement

b. compliment
5. Are there any amusement parks in this ___?
a. local
b. locale
6. Are you ___ dressed?
a. already
b. all ready
7. Are you a boy ___ a girl?
a. oar
b. ore
c. or
8. Are you for ___ or is this just an act?
a. real
b. reel
9. Are you in ___?
a. pain
b. pane
10.As ___ falls the stars start to appear in the sky.
a. night
b. knight
11.Bad news reporting makes me see ___.
a. read
b. red
12.Be careful not to ___ that big fish in too fast.
a. real
b. reel
13.Be sure there is enough daylight to make your ___ down the mountain.
a. decent
b. descent
c. dissent

14.Better ___ than never.
a. later
b. latter
15.Birds catch worms that come out with the morning ___.
a. dew
b. do

c. due
16.Bread tastes better the longer you ___ the dough.
a. need
b. knead
17.Brian invited ___ of his friends to his birthday party.
a. known
b. none
c. nun
18.But I ____ it would be all right.
a. though
b. thought
19.Can you ___ a way for me to carry three bags at one time?
a. device
b. devise
20.Can you ___ the apples for me?
a. peal
b. peel
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Commonly Confused Words - Quiz 4
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1. Can you make any ___ of this note?
a. sense
b. since

2. Carol eats ___ with every meal.
a. bread
b. bred
3. Carry the water in a ___.
a. pail
b. pale
4. Categories are only valid if they are ___.
a. discreet
b. discrete
5. Cathy was the ___ survivor of the plane crash.
a. sole

b. soul
6. Change your ___ and put the dirty ones in the laundry basket.
a. cloths
b. clothes
7. Changing the bandage often will help it ___.
a. heal
b. heel
8. Chickens can also be referred to as poultry or ___.
a. foul
b. fowl
9. Chuck heard his team mates ___ when his shot missed the goal.
a. groan
b. grown
10.Cocaine is an ___ drug.
a. elicit
b. illicit
11.Come over ___ and say that again!
a. hear

b. here
12.Company ___ dropped when the cutback and layoffs were announced.
a. moral
b. morale
13.Decaying fish makes an extremely ___ smell.
a. foul
b. fowl
14.Diane Fossey was famous for her work with the mountain ___ groups in Rwanda.
a. gorilla
b. guerrilla
15.Do not ___ illness to get out of work.
a. fain
b. feign
16.Do not ___ in the affairs of other.
a. medal
b. meddle
c. mettle

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