Spelling — correctly & incorrectly spelt words MCQ — 13 Practice Questions with Answers

Explanation

The assertion is true: separate is spelt with a in the middle, not e. The reason is also true and explains the error. In connected speech, the middle vowel may be weakly pronounced, so candidates often write what they think they hear as seperate. Competitive spelling items frequently test such vowel reductions because the wrong form looks natural to the ear. Since R gives the exact reason for the misspelling named in A, option A is correct.

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Both statements are correct. British and Indian standard English normally prefer fulfil over fulfill and skilful over skillful. The trap is that related forms may keep or change the doubled l depending on the word: fulfil becomes fulfilled and fulfilling, while skilful keeps a single l in the middle. Competitive exams in India generally expect British spelling unless the paper explicitly asks otherwise. Since both given statements correctly identify the British and Indian standard forms, option C is the answer.

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The question asks for the incorrectly spelt word. Priviledge is wrong; the standard spelling is privilege, with no d after the second i. The distractors are all correctly spelt but often miswritten: accommodate needs double c and double m, minuscule is not 'miniscule', and supersede is one of the rare words ending in -sede. Since only Option D contains a spelling error, it is the correct answer for this question.

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The correct matching is 1-c, 2-d, 3-a, 4-b. Embarrassment has double r and double s; privilege has no d before the final -ge; consensus begins con- and has -sens-, not -cens-; occurrence has double c and double r, followed by -ence. Each misspelling in List I represents a common false analogy: embarass from single-r habit, priviledge from knowledge, concensus from census, and occurrance from -ance nouns. Option A alone corrects all four forms accurately.

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The correct spelling is Millennium, with double l and double n. The word comes from Latin mille, meaning thousand, and annus, meaning year; that history helps explain why both consonant pairs are retained. In examination spelling questions, near-forms often remove one repeated consonant because pronunciation does not strongly mark the doubling. Here, only option A preserves the full standard spelling: m-i-l-l-e-n-n-i-u-m.