EBC Course Name: __________________

Individual Assignments

COMMONLY MISSPELLED WORDS

Select the correct or preferred spelling for each of these commonly misspelled words. We are using
American English for this exercise, so, as an example, while “manoeuvre” is the proper spelling for the
word in the Queen’s English, we will choose “maneuver” as the correct answer as this is how it is spelled
in the American English lexicon.

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1. To provide with something desired, needed, 5. The judgment arrived at by most of those
or suited concerned

a) acomodate a) consensus

b) accomodate b) concensus

c) acommodate c) consencus

d) accommodate d) consenssus

2. Recognition or favorable notice of an act or 6. Determined or conditioned by another

achievement
a) dependant
a) acknowledgment
b) depindant
b) acknowledgement
c) dependent
c) acknowlegment
d) dependunt
d) acknowlegement
7. Allowable as a deduction
3. An angry quarrel or disagreement
a) deductible
a) arguement
b) deductable
b) argument
c) deductuble
c) arguemant
d) deductabel
d) arguemint
8. To cause to experience a state of self-
4. An agreement or pledge to do something in conscious distress
the future
a) embarras
a) comitment
b) embaras
b) comitmment
c) embarass
c) commitment
d) embarrass
d) comitmant

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9. Actual or present occurrence 15. Communication for establishing and

maintaining mutual cooperation and
a) existance understanding

b) existence a) liason
c) existanse b) liasson

d) existanc c) liasone
10. Prefatory comments (as for a book) d) liaison
especially when written by someone other than
the author 16. Permission to act

a) foreward a) license

b) forword b) lisense

c) forworde c) licens

d) foreword d) licence

11. To annoy persistently 17. Happening or incident

a) harass a) occassion

b) haras b) ocassion

c) harrass c) occasion

d) herrass d) ocasion

12. Unintentional 18. Something that occurs

a) inadvertant a) occurrence

b) inadvartant b) ocurrance

c) inadvartent c) occurrance

d) inadvertent d) occurance

13. Absolutely necessary 19. Continued effort to do or achieve

something despite difficulties, failure, or
a) indispensabel opposition

b) indispensible a) perserverance

c) indispensable b) persaverence

d) indespensible c) perserverence

14. An opinion or estimate so formed d) perseverance

a) judgement

b) judgment

c) judgemant

d) judgmant
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20. An exclusive or special right or power

a) prerogative

b) perogative

c) perogitive

d) preragitive

21. A right or immunity granted as a peculiar

benefit, advantage, or favor

a) privelege

b) privilege

c) privlege

d) privelige

22. To go on in an orderly regulated way

a) procede

b) proceede

c) proced

d) proceed

23. To set or keep apart

a) seperate

b) separete

c) separate

d) seperat

24. To take the place or position of

a) supersede

b) supercede

c) superceed

d) suparseed

25. To keep in custody

a) withhold

b) withhuld

c) withold

d) withhald

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