Homonyms - Quiz 11

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She worked at two part time jobs to pay off her student ___.
a. loan
b. lone
The businessman ___ his flight so he had to call his office.
a. missed
b. mist
It is important to ___ your children when they do good work.
a. praise
b. prays
c. preys
Clothes that are in ___ are not always suitable to my taste.
a. stile
b. style
The pulmonary ___ carries blood from the heart to the lungs.
a. vain
b. vane
c. vein
She bought twelve, consumed ___ and had four donuts leftover.
a. ate
b. eight
Cotton, straw and hay can be stored in a bundle called a ___.
a. bail
b. bale
Trans-Pacific flights usually carry two different flight ___.
a. crews
b. cruise
Chuck heard his team mates ___ when his shot missed the goal.
a. groan
b. grown
She may not be very pretty but she is not exactly ___ either.
a. plain
b. plane
Make a ___ turn at the next corner and drive two more blocks.
a. right
b. rite
If you are tired, just think about climbing one __ at a time.
a. stair
b. stare
The doctor worked to save her life but the effort was in ___.
a. vain
b. vane
c. vein
The television news program reported on all of the ___ issues.
a. currant
b. current
Set another ___ at the table because we are expecting a guest.
a. place
b. plaice
I can not think of anything that you can buy for only one ___.
a. scent
b. sent
c. cent
My mother lost her ___ because of the disease called glaucoma.
a. sight
b. site
c. cite
It is not unusual to see a wild ___ in the hills near my house.
a. boar
b. bore
c. boor
He kissed her good ___ at the airport as she left for her trip.
a. buy
b. by
c. bye
To remove the seeds from an apple one needs to cut out the ___.
a. core
b. corps

Copyright (C) 1998 Donna Tatsuki (dtatsuki@gol.com)
This quiz is part of the HTML-Only Self-Study Quizzes which is part of Activities for ESL Students, a project by The Internet TESL Journal.