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Words Often Misspelt & Confused — GK Questions with Answers

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27 questions
  1. Which is the correct spelling?
    1. Occureded
    2. Ocurred
    3. Occurred
    4. Occured
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    Answer: (C) Occurred

    Occur doubles its r before a vowel suffix — occurred.

  2. Choose the correct spelling.
    1. Guarentee
    2. Guarantee
    3. Garantee
    4. Garenti
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    Answer: (B) Guarantee

    Guarantee — g-u-a-r-a-n-t-e-e.

  3. Choose the correct spelling.
    1. Accommodation
    2. Accomodation
    3. Acommodation
    4. Accumadation
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    Answer: (A) Accommodation

    Accommodation has two c and two m.

  4. Choose the correctly spelled word.
    1. Exazerated
    2. Exggerated
    3. Exaggerated
    4. Exazzerated
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    Answer: (C) Exaggerated

    Exaggerated has two g.

  5. Select the correctly spelt word.
    1. Barrycade
    2. Bariecade
    3. Barricade
    4. Barricad
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    Answer: (C) Barricade

    Barricade — two r, one c.

  6. Which word is correctly spelt?
    1. bouckay
    2. bouquet
    3. bokey
    4. bukkey
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    Answer: (B) bouquet

    Bouquet keeps its French spelling.

  7. Choose the correct spelling.
    1. Plabian
    2. Plebeiaane
    3. Plebeian
    4. Plabbean
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    Answer: (C) Plebeian

    Plebeian — of the common people.

  8. The author has enumerated the qualities of his book in the ______.
    1. forworde
    2. foreword
    3. fareword
    4. forward
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    Answer: (B) foreword

    The preface of a book is the foreword — a word that comes before.

  9. Fill in the blank with the correctly spelt word: He ______ his friend in the hour of his need.
    1. disserted
    2. diserted
    3. desserted
    4. deserted
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    Answer: (D) deserted

    Deserted — abandoned. Dessert with two s is the sweet course.

  10. Fill in the blank with the correct option: She ignited some aromatic sticks in a ______.
    1. censor
    2. censure
    3. censer
    4. censuuree
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    Answer: (C) censer

    A censer is the vessel in which incense is burnt.

  1. Choose the option that is meaningfully correct.
    1. Everyone cheered the ascent of the hot air balloon.
    2. Everyone cheered the assent of the hot air balloon.
    3. Everyone cheered the amend of the hot air balloon.
    4. Everyone cheered the accent of the hot air balloon.
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    Answer: (A) Everyone cheered the ascent of the hot air balloon.

    A balloon rises, so the word is ascent — a climb.

  2. Select the proper word for the blank: ______ relations have ruined many families.
    1. Elicit
    2. Illicit
    3. Illusion
    4. Allusion
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    Answer: (B) Illicit

    Illicit means unlawful. Elicit means to draw out.

  3. Which pair is correctly matched?
    1. stationary — writing materials
    2. principal — a rule or belief
    3. its — it is
    4. complement — that which completes
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    Answer: (D) complement — that which completes

    A complement completes something; a compliment is praise.

  4. "Fewer" is used with ___ and "less" with ___.
    1. uncountable; countable
    2. countable; uncountable
    3. people; things
    4. things; people
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    Answer: (B) countable; uncountable

    Fewer books, less water.

  5. Indian examinations normally follow which spelling convention?
    1. American
    2. British
    3. Australian
    4. Canadian
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    Answer: (B) British

    Write colour, centre and realise — the British forms.

  6. Which is the correct spelling of the -ing form of "hope"?
    1. hopeing
    2. hoping
    3. hopping
    4. hopeng
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    Answer: (B) hoping

    Final -e is dropped before an ending that begins with a vowel.

  7. Which is correctly spelt?
    1. noticable
    2. noticeable
    3. noticeble
    4. noticible
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    Answer: (B) noticeable

    The -e is kept after -ce to keep the c soft.

  8. Which is correctly spelt?
    1. beginning
    2. begining
    3. beggining
    4. begginning
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    Answer: (A) beginning

    The stress falls on -gin, so the n doubles.

  9. Which is correctly spelt?
    1. benefitted
    2. benefited
    3. benifited
    4. benefeted
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    Answer: (B) benefited

    The stress is on the first syllable, so there is no doubling.

  10. Which is correctly spelt?
    1. argument
    2. arguement
    3. arguemant
    4. argumant
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    Answer: (A) argument

    Argue drops its -e — one of the fixed exceptions.

  1. Which is correctly spelt?
    1. carrying
    2. carriing
    3. carreing
    4. carying
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    Answer: (A) carrying

    Before -ing, the y is always kept.

  2. Which is correctly spelt?
    1. recieve
    2. receive
    3. receeve
    4. reciave
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    Answer: (B) receive

    ei after c — the rhyme holds here.

  3. Which word breaks the "i before e" rule?
    1. believe
    2. seize
    3. chief
    4. field
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    Answer: (B) seize

    Seize is one of the standard exceptions, with weird and leisure.

  4. Which is correctly spelt?
    1. basicly
    2. basically
    3. basicaly
    4. basicalley
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    Answer: (B) basically

    Adjectives in -ic take -ally.

  5. "He gave me good ___." Choose the right word.
    1. advise
    2. advice
    3. advices
    4. advises
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    Answer: (B) advice

    The noun is advice, with -ce.

  6. "You should ___ him to stay." Choose the right word.
    1. advice
    2. advise
    3. advices
    4. adviced
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    Answer: (B) advise

    The verb is advise, with -se.

  7. Which word ends in -sede?
    1. precede
    2. supersede
    3. proceed
    4. concede
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    Answer: (B) supersede

    Supersede is the only one.

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