English Language

Spellings

1,738 Questions
All Vowel Confusion 386 Inserted or Omitted Letters 380 Single vs. Double Consonants 319 Silent Letters 140 Confusable Suffix Endings 121 Suffix Application Rules 82 Foreign Origin Spellings 67 Letter Transposition 58 Homophone Confusion 40 Prefix Application Rules 21

Spellings Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the option that spells the word correctly.

  1. Riluctant

  2. Reluctent

  3. Reluctant

  4. Relucktent
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spelling is 'Reluctant' with 'r-e-l-u-c-t-a-n-t'. The middle syllable uses 'uc' not 'ac' or 'uck'. The base word doesn't change form when adding the suffix. Option C is correct.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the option that spells the word correctly.

  1. Possesion

  2. Posession

  3. Possession

  4. Posetion
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spelling is 'Possession' with 'p-o-s-s-e-s-s-i-o-n'. This word means ownership or having something. It uses double 's' twice and ends with '-sion'. Option C is correct.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the option with correct spellings of the underlined words.

Water is a very important natural resource. Lakhs of residents living at various locations do not have proper water supply. It is the responsibility of government to provide portable water to the residents in each and every state. In doing so the government should take othentic measures to save the ground water from being polluted. The state government should install the water purifiers to purify water before supplying it to the residents.

  1. Pottable, Othantic

  2. Portable, Authantic

  3. Potable, Authentic

  4. Poteable, Athentick

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spellings are potable and authentic.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the option with correct spellings of the underlined words.

Modern societies that are based on using large amounts of goods, especially those that are manufactured for one time use, are extremely wasteful. The current consumption patterns are dipliting non-renewable resources. They are altering the natural procceses on which life depends. People in the industrialized countries make up 20% of the world population, but consume 80% of the world’s resources and produce 80% of the total waste. This is due to a pattern of economic development that ensures that people go on consuming more than they actually need.

  1. Deepleting, Proceses

  2. Dipleting, Pocesses

  3. Depleting , Processes

  4. Depliting, Prosesses

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spellings are depleting and processes.