26 September 2011

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.

Send in your answers as comment.

4 comments:

Johann Patrick Dela Cruz II-Acacia said...

1. averse
2. effected
3. childlike
4. canvas
5. devised
6. ingenious
7. elicited
8. laying
9. amiable
10. amicable

Anonymous said...

1. averse
2. effected
3. childlike
4. canvas
5. devised
6. ingenious
7. elicited
8. laying
9. amiable
10. amicable

Hazel Grace Sodsod II ACACIA
We are all born superstars :)))

Ephraim Joseph Marollano said...

1. averse
2. effected
3. childlike
4. canvas
5. devised
6. ingenious
7. elicited
8. laying
9. amiable
10. amicable

...... Johann is always the first one to post...... :D

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