The Commonly Misspelled Words Quiz

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The Commonly Misspelled Words Quiz
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About This Quiz

Think you're an ace at spelling? Oh yeah? Let's see how well you do when they're the words we misspell the most. Take this quiz to test your skills.
A section at the beginning of a book:
foreword
forward
foreward
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Wrong Answer

The editor makes some good points in the foreword.

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To annoy or bother someone:
harass
harrass
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She was constantly harassed by the other students.

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An opinion or decision based on careful thought:
judgemant
judgement
judgment
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Use your best judgment.

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To stop being together, joined or connected:
separate
seperate
seperrate
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The salt crystals separated from the liquid.

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To make someone look foolish in public:
embarass
embarrass
embarras
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Don't do anything to embarrass your family.

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A right or benefit that is given to some people and not to others:
privledge
privalige
privilege
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Access to healthy food should be a right and not a privilege.

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To hold (something) back:
withold
withhold
with hold
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The bank will withhold your check for 30 days.

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A promise to do or give something:
commitment
committment
comittment
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The church has a commitment to helping the poor.

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Able to be subtracted from an amount of money:
diductable
deductable
deductible
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The dinner was deductible as a business expense.

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To make or have room for:
accommodate
accomodate
acommodate
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This table can accommodate 12 comfortably.

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Determined or conditioned by another:
dependant
dependent
dependint
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Our plans are dependent on the weather.

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A special right or privilege that some people have:
perogative
prerogative
porogative
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If you want to sell the tickets rather than use them, that's your prerogative.

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The act or practice of deception:
deceit
deciet
deseit
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His rise to power was marked by treachery and deceit.

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A person who is the leader of a state:
governor
govenor
govanor
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The governor vetoed the bill.

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A regular, repeated pattern of sounds or movements:
rythm
rhythm
rythym
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The composer's use of jazz rhythm is interesting.

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To recall the past:
reminisce
reminise
reminice
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She likes to reminisce about her time in France.

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To notice or become aware of something:
perceive
percieve
perseive
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Young children often perceive things differently than adults.

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To make a judgment about something:
gauge
guage
gage
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He had to accurately gauge the mood of the voters.

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Not moving; staying in one place or position:
stationary
stationery
stationarie
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The weather front has remained stationary over the Southeast.

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To be unable to find something:
lose
loose
loos
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She will lose her keys if she doesn't hang them on the key rack.

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Sweet food eaten after the main part of a meal:
dessert
desert
dessart
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Pumpkin pie is my favorite Thanksgiving dessert.

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Emptiness of space:
vaccuum
vacuum
vaccum
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Corporations are competing to fill the vacuum.

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Unusual or strange:
weird
wierd
wired
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My dogs act weird all the time.

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To use legal or official power to take something:
seize
seize
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The bank had to seize their property.

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Made to look like an exact copy of something in order to trick people:
counterfeit
counterfit
counterfet
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They bought counterfeit concert tickets without knowing it.

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The first time a film, play, television show, etc., is shown or performed:
premiere
premier
premeire
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The movie will have its premiere next week.

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A person who helps organizations or groups to work together:
liaison
liason
laison
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She acts as a liaison between the police department and city schools.

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Unequivocally; positively:
definitely
definately
definetly
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The answer is definitely "no."

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The power to produce results; influence:
effect
affect
afect
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His speech had no effect on the final election.

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The state of the air and atmosphere at a particular time and place:
weather
whether
wether
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The weather is supposed to be gorgeous this weekend.

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