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Commonly Misspelled Words for Editing

The streets were desserted that night. Everyone was at home, moaning the dead King. May he rest in piece.

You could either laugh or cringe at the absurdity of the sentences above, or take out a red pen to
circle the errors (like me). Spelling errors are seldom funny but always detrimental, especially if
you are a student sitting in an exam without the benefit of spell-check or Grammarly.

Here is a list of 50 commonly misspelled words that are frequently seen in the Editing section of
Paper 2. Give it a try to see if you could get all of them spelled correctly! Answers are provided
below.

P.S: For consistency, only the British spelling variant of the words are accepted.

1. acceptible: _______________

2. accomodate: _______________

3. acheive: _______________

4. acquintance: _______________

5. adviseable: _______________

6. arguement: _______________

7. calender: _______________

8. camoflage: _______________

9. conscienscious: _______________

10. consious: _______________

11. definately: _______________

12. diarhoea : _______________

13. disappearence: _______________

14. disasterous: _______________

15. embarasment: _______________

16. enviroment: _______________

17. excede (our expectations): _______________

18. explaination: _______________

19. facsinating: _______________

20. flourescent: _______________

21. fourty: _______________

22. fulfiling: _______________

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23. goverment: _______________

24. harrass: _______________

25. heirarchy: _______________

26. imaginery: _______________

27. irresistable: _______________

28. knowlege: _______________

29. maintainence: _______________

30. momento (a souvenir): _______________

31. neccesary: _______________

32. nineth: _______________

33. nuisence: _______________

34. occassion: _______________

35. occurance: _______________

36. outragous: _______________

37. permanant: _______________

38. perseverence: _______________

39. presense: _______________

40. publically: _______________

41. recieve (a gift): _______________

42. releive (some pressure): _______________

43. recomend: _______________

44. relevent: _______________

45. restorant: _______________

46. rythm (of a song) : _______________

47. sacrifise: _______________

48. tommorrow: _______________

49. useable: _______________

50. valueable: _______________

Before the answer key for the above exercise is revealed, have you figured out what is wrong with
these sentences?

The streets were desserted that night. Everyone was at home, moaning the dead King. May he rest in piece.

It should be:

The streets were deserted that night. Everyone was at home, mourning the dead King. May he rest in
peace.

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Answer Key

P.S: For consistency, only the British spelling variant of the words are provided.

1. acceptable

2. accommodate

3. achieve

4. acquaintance

5. advisable

6. argument

7. calendar

8. camouflage

9. conscientious

10. conscious

11. definitely

12. diarrhoea

13. disappearance

14. disastrous

15. embarrassment

16. environment

17. exceed (our expectations)

18. explanation

19. fascinating

20. fluorescent

21. forty

22. fulfilling

23. government

24. harass

25. hierarchy

26. imaginary

27. irresistible

28. knowledge

29. maintenance

30. memento (a souvenir)

31. necessary

32. ninth

33. nuisance

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34. occasion

35. occurrence

36. outrageous

37. permanent

38. perseverance

39. presence

40. publicly

41. receive (a gift)

42. relieve (some pressure)

43. recommend

44. relevant

45. restaurant

46. rhythm (of a song)

47. sacrifice

48. tomorrow

49. usable

50. valuable

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