Commonly Confused Words - Quiz 13

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It is difficult to ___ used cars and insurance.
a. cell
b. sell
It is difficult to ___ who will win the election.
a. prophecy
b. prophesy
It is easy to cross a fence by climbing a ___.
a. stile
b. style
It is father's job to ___ out punishment in our family.
a. meat
b. meet
c. mete
It is hard to ___ an honest living.
a. earn
b. urn
It is illegal to ___ goods door to door.
a. pedal
b. peddle
It is important to ___ the soil to test the metal bearing content.
a. assay
b. essay
It is important to ___ your children when they do good work.
a. praise
b. prays
c. preys
It is not as ___ I meant to be selfish.
a. though
b. thought
It is so difficult to ___ which chocolate to eat!
a. choose
b. chose
c. chosen
It looks like ___ but the weather forecast was for sunshine.
a. rain
b. reign
c. rein
It only takes a few minutes by ferryboat to go to the ___ of Wight
a. aisle
b. isle
It takes a couple of hours for bread ___ to rise.
a. doe
b. dough
It takes longer to ___ a mountain that it does to go down.
a. ascend
b. ascent
c. assent
It was a case of love at first ___.
a. sight
b. site
c. cite
It was an ___ light that shone over the street.
a. eerie
b. Erie
c. eyrie
It was so cold that ___ frost formed on the window.
a. hoar
b. whore
Jerry ___ so much syrup over his pancakes that you can hardly see the plate.
a. pores
b. pours
John ___ the trumpet so loud that his ears popped.
a. blew
b. blue
Lake ___ is one of the five Great Lakes.
a. eerie
b. Erie
c. eyrie