Quiz #4: Confusing Words

Choose which word appropriately completes the sentence.

1. She is (adverse, averse) to reptiles such as lizards and snakes.
2. Justin Bieber (affected, effected) a commotion in the crowd.
3. Minerva has a (childish, childlike) attitude which people find quite charming.
4. The students painted the image on a huge (canvas, canvass).
5. Carl (deviced, devised) this energy saving contraption.
6. That is an (ingenious, ingenuous) idea! You have a clever mind.
7. Monica's reaction (illicited, elicited) lots of questions.
8. Yakult is (lying, laying) on the grass.
9. The (amiable, amicable) businessmen...
10. had an (amiable, amicable) settlement.

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