Each of these 50 words is offered in its correct form and in one or more of its popular misspellings. Check those that look right to you. Unless you are a statistical abnormality, you'll likely not score higher than 50 percent -- so use the list to improve your skills.
1. (a) drunkeness, (b) drunkenness.
2. (a) coolly, (b) cooly. (the adverb)
3. (a) incidently, (b) incidentally.
4. (a) embarrassment, (b) embarassment, (c) embarrassement.
5. (a) sieze, (b) seize.
6. (a) allotted, (b) alotted (c) alloted.
7. (a) alright, (b) allright, (c) all right.
8. (a) occurance, (b) occurrance, (c) occurrence
9. (a) chagrined, (b) chagrinned
10. (a) inoculate, (b) innoculate, (c) inocculate.
11. (a) reccomend, (b) recommend.
12. (a) occassional, (b) occasional.
13. (a) annoint, (b) anoint
14. (a) exhilarated, (b) exhillarated,
(c) exhilerated.
15. (a) iridescent, (b) irredescent (c) irridescant.
16. (a) dissipate, (b) disippate, (c) dissapate.
17. (a) friccasee, (b) fricassee.
18. (a) battalion, (b) batallion.
19. (a) seive, (b) sieve.
20. (a) persistant, (b) persistent.
21. (a) insistant, (b) insistent.
22. (a) predictible, (b) predictable.
23. (a) superintendant, (b) superintendent.
24. (a) perseverance, (b) perserverance, (c)
perseverence.
25. (a) inadvertant, (b) inadvertent.
26. (a) desparate (b) desperate.
27. (a) separate(b) seperate.
28. (a) catagory, (b) category.
29. (a) mathamatics, (b) mathematics.
30. (a) lonliness, (b) loneliness.
31. (a) argument, (b) arguement
32. (a) irresistible, (b) irrisistable, (c) irrisistible.
33. (a) indispensible, (b) indespensable, (c)
indispensable.
34. (a) sacrilegious, (b) sacreligious.
35. (a) disappoint, (b) dissapoint
36. (a) hairbrained, (b) harebrained
37. (a) nickle, (b) nickel.
38. (a) paraffin (b) parrafin
39. (a) geneology, (b) genealogy.
40. (a) repitition, (b) repetition.
41. (a) license, (b) liscence, (c) lisence.
42. (a) desiccate, (b) dessicate.
43. (a) quizzes, (b) quizes
44. (a) recconoiter, (b) reconnoiter.
45. (a) apochryphal, (b) apocryphal.
46. (a) esophagus, (b) esophagous.
47. (a) asisstant, (b) assistant.
48. (a) surprise, (b) supprise. (c) surprize.
49. (a) benifited, (b) benifitted, (c) benefited.
50. (a) heros, (b) heroes.
If two points is allowed for each correct choice, an average score for an educated person is 50 points, 70-86 points shows unusual spelling ability; anything higher is no less than phenomenal.
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