Commonly Confused Words Worksheet

Vocabulary lesson 24: Commonly confused words · Set 154 · 40 questions

Word tip (Meaning first, then spelling): Decide what the sentence needs: an action (verb) or a thing (noun)? affect / advise are verbs; effect / advice are nouns. Use memory tricks: stationEry has e for envelopes; stationAry has a for “at rest”; dessert has a double s for “sweet stuff”. Read the finished sentence and check the meaning.

1. 1.Pick the right word: Winning the first match raised the team’s ___. (a) moral (b) morale
2. 2.Pick the right word: All hospital ___ must wear an ID card. (a) personal (b) personnel
3. 3.Pick the right word: I ___ what is inside the box. (a) wonder (b) wander
4. 4.Pick the right word: A teacher can ___ students who feel worried. (a) counsel (b) council
5. 5.Pick the right word: I will call you ___. (a) later (b) latter
6. 6.Pick the right word: The cat licked ___ paw. (a) its (b) it's
7. 7.Pick the right word: The tailor will ___ my kurta to make it shorter. (a) alter (b) altar
8. 8.Pick the right word: My ___ told me to return the extra change. (a) conscience (b) conscious
9. 9.Pick the right word: We ___ playing when it started to rain. (a) where (b) were
10. 10.Pick the right word: I do not know ___ she will come. (a) weather (b) whether
11. 11.Pick the right word: ___ raining, so take an umbrella. (a) It's (b) Its
12. 12.Pick the right word: Riya ___ me on my neat handwriting. (a) complemented (b) complimented
13. 13.Pick the right word: First we ate lunch, and ___ we played. (a) than (b) then
14. 14.Pick the right word: Always ___ the book you took a fact from. (a) sight (b) site (c) cite
15. 15.Pick the right word: It is rude to ___ at people. (a) stair (b) stare
16. 16.Pick the right word: They are building a new school on this ___. (a) sight (b) site (c) cite
17. 17.Pick the right word: Her red dupatta ___ her white kurta perfectly. (a) complemented (b) complimented
18. 18.Pick the right word: The chief guest was ___ welcomed at the gate. (a) formally (b) formerly
19. 19.Pick the right word: Is this ___ water bottle? (a) you're (b) your
20. 20.Pick the right word: We had kheer for ___ after dinner. (a) desert (b) dessert
21. 21.Pick the right word: Dark clouds showed that rain was ___. (a) imminent (b) eminent
22. 22.Pick the right word: The bus was ___ at the red light. (a) stationary (b) stationery
23. 23.Pick the right word: ___ maths, Riya also loves art. (a) Beside (b) Besides
24. 24.Pick the right word: Always telling the truth is a good ___. (a) principal (b) principle
25. 25.Pick the right word: The sun will ___ at six tomorrow. (a) raise (b) rise
26. 26.Pick the right word: Mum is ___ the old saree blue. (a) dyeing (b) dying
27. 27.Pick the right word: The goats ___ around the hills all day. (a) wander (b) wonder
28. 28.Pick the right word: The ___ of the snowy mountains was beautiful. (a) sight (b) site (c) cite
29. 29.Pick the right word: My teacher gave me some good ___. (a) advice (b) advise
30. 30.Pick the right word: I bought pens and paper at the ___ shop. (a) stationery (b) stationary
31. 31.Pick the right word: Can I ___ your eraser for a minute? (a) borrow (b) lend
32. 32.Pick the right word: The medicine had a good ___ on her cold. (a) affect (b) effect
33. 33.Pick the right word: Camels ___ well to life in the desert. (a) adapt (b) adopt
34. 34.Pick the right word: The letter A comes before B; A ___ B in the alphabet. (a) precedes (b) proceeds
35. 35.Pick the right word: In the ___, people wrote letters with ink pens. (a) past (b) passed
36. 36.Pick the right word: Put the letter in an ___. (a) envelop (b) envelope
37. 37.Pick the right word: We must ___ a plan to save water. (a) device (b) devise
38. 38.Pick the right word: I write in my ___ every night. (a) dairy (b) diary
39. 39.Pick the right word: The patient was ___ and could answer questions. (a) conscious (b) conscience
40. 40.Pick the right word: Please be ___ in the library. (a) quite (b) quiet

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