Commonly Confused Words - Quiz 16

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Please type your password to ___ your account.
a. access
b. excess
Plug the ___ into the electrical outlet.
a. chord
b. cord
Quitting is not my ___.
a. stile
b. style
Rebecca wrote every night in her ___.
a. dairy
b. diary
Researchers try to ___ truthful responses from subjects.
a. elicit
b. illicit
Ring the church ___ !
a. bell
b. belle
Salem is famous for its ___ hunts.
a. which
b. witch
She ___ the children down the street.
a. lead
b. led
She ___ the red bicycle instead of the blue one.
a. choose
b. chose
c. chosen
She always thought of her husband as a kind of "___ in shining armor", a hero.
a. knight
b. night
She always wanted to become a ___ rather than to marry.
a. none
b. nun
She felt him ___ her in his arms.
a. envelop
b. envelope
She gave silent ___ to the proposal.
a. ascend
b. ascent
c. assent
She is an expert in the ___ arts.
a. marital
b. martial
She keeps her root vegetables in the base___.
a. meant
b. ment(a suffix)
She made ___ inquiries about the rental price.
a. discreet
b. discrete
She may not be very pretty but she is not exactly ___ either.
a. plain
b. plane
She planted daisies to make a floral ___ around her yard.
a. boarder
b. border
She survived by her ability to ___ and guile.
a. while
b. wile
She told the campers a scary ___ about a mysterious murder.
a. tail
b. tale