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abberration aberration
accomodation accommodation
acheive achieve
adress address
alot a lot or allot
alterior ulterior
athiest atheist
beggining beginning
beleive believe
Caucasion Caucasian
cemetary cemetery
committment commitment
concensus consensus
concieve conceive
copywrite copyright
Dalmation Dalmatian
decaffinated decaffeinated
decathalon decathlon
definately definitely
dependance dependence
desireable desirable
diarhea diarrhoea
dissapoint disappoint
dispell dispel
embarass embarrass
enviroment environment
expresso espresso
facist fascist
Febuary February
fivety fifty
fluoroscent fluorescent
flouride fluoride
forteen fourteen
fourty forty
freind friend
geneology genealogy
goverment government
grammer grammar
harrass harass
hemorage haemorrhage
heros heroes
hight height
hygeine hygiene
hypocracy hypocricy
independance independence
inate innate
innoculate inoculate
intresting interesting
juge judge
knowlege knowledge
lazer laser
libary library
lightening lightning
managable manageable
millenium millennium
mischievious mischievous
mispell misspell
missle missile
monestary monastery
monkies monkeys
morgage mortgage
mountian mountain
neccessary necessary
neice niece
nickle nickel
nineth ninth
ninty ninety
noticable noticeable
occured occurred
occurence occurrence
oppurtunity opportunity
opthamologist ophthalmologist
paralell / parallell parallel
pasttime pastime
pavillion pavilion
peice piece
percieve perceive
perserverance perseverance
Exercise
Find out the correct spelling
1. (a) acquaintence (b) acquaintance
(c) aquaintence (d) aquaintance
2. (a) firey (b) firrey
(c) fiery (d) fierr
3. (a) privilege (b) priviledge
(c) priveledge (d) privelege
4. (a) receit (b) reciept
(c) receipt (d) reciebt
5. (a) excercise (b) excersise
(c) exercise (d) exersize
6. (a) incidentally (b) incidentaly
(c) incidentelly (d) incedentally
7. (a) jugement (b) judgement
(c) judgment (d) judgemant
8. (a) mischievious (b) mischeivious

(c) mischevious (d) mischievous
9. (a) nausious (b) nauseus
(c) nauceous (d) nauseous
10. (a) sensible (b) senscible
(c) sencible (d) sensable
Answers
1.d 2.c 3.a 4.c 5.c
6.a 7.c 8.d 9.d 10.a

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