Brief Intermission Ten

ANOTHER CHECK ON YOUR SPELLING

In each line you will find four words—one of them purposely,

subtly, and perhaps unexpectedly misspelled. It’s up to you to check

the single error. If you can come out on top at least fifteen times out

of twenty, you’re probably a better speller than you realize.

  1. (a) alright, (b) coolly, (c) supersede, (d) disappear

  2. (a) inoculate, (b) definately, (c) irresistible, (d) recommend

  3. (a) incidentally, (b) dissipate, (c) seperate, (d) balloon

  4. (a) argument, (b) ecstasy, (c) occurrance, (d) analyze

  5. (a) sacrilegious, (b) weird, (c) pronunciation, (d) repitition

  6. (a) drunkeness, (b) embarrassment, (c) weird, (d) irritable

  7. (a) noticeable, (b) superintendant, (c) absence, (d) development

  8. (a) vicious, (b) conscience, (c) panicy, (d) amount

  9. (a) accessible, (b) pursue, (c) exhilarate, (d) insistant

10. (a) naïveté, (b) necessary, (c) catagory, (d) professor

11. (a) rhythmical, (b) sergeant, (c) vaccuum, (d) assassin

12. (a) benefitted, (b) allotted, (c) corroborate, (d) despair

13. (a) diphtheria, (b) grandeur, (c) rediculous, (d) license

14. (a) tranquillity, (b) symmetry, (c) occassionally, (d) privilege

15. (a) tarriff, (b) tyranny, (c) battalion, (d) archipelago

16. (a) bicycle, (b) geneology, (c) liquefy, (d) bettor

17. (a) defense, (b) batchelor, (c) stupefy, (d) parallel

18. (a) whisky, (b) likable, (c) bookkeeper, (d) accomodate

19. (a) comparitive, (b) mayonnaise, (c) indispensable, (d)

dexterous

20. (a) dictionary, (b) cantaloupe, (c) existance, (d) ukulele

KEY:    1–a (all right), 2–b (definitely), 3–c (separate), 4–c

(occurrence), 5–d (repetition), 6–a (drunkenness), 7–b

(superintendent),

8–c

(panicky),

9–d

(insistent),

10–c

(category),

11–c

(vacuum),

12–a

(benefited),

13–c

(ridiculous),

14–c

(occasionally),

15–a

(tariff),

16–b

(genealogy), 17–b (bachelor), 18–d (accommodate), 19–a

(comparative), 20–c (existence)