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[rabidsamfan]

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The Commonly Confused Words Test
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=14457200288064322170


After several tries, I admit, and some methodical testing.

Of course, now she's starting to put her reasoning on line at http://shortredhead78.blogspot.com/
but here are the answers that work:


1. loose
2. breath
3. barely
4. wish/your
5. went/me
6. she/I
7. It's
8. there/their
9. had gotten/their (I disagree with her on this one, I think that got/their is equally valid.)
10. they're/than
11. principal
12. there/morale
13. who's/whose
14. difficult/accept (again, I disagree, and would take hard/accept as also perfectly within normal usage.)
15. medal
16. paid/biweekly
17. priceless
18. yolks
19. passed/past
20. bare
21. advise
22. either a or b
23. saw/seen
24. device
25. risky
26. necessary/stationery
27. assessing/aspect
28. counsel
29. assure/insure
30. ;/better
31. hanged/practicing (I think hanged/practising also works, btw.)
32. effect/economic
33. all of the above
34. towards/while
35. inquire/who
36. either a or b
37. phenomenon
38. :/sensuous (hmmm. I thought you used a semicolon to separate independent clauses.)
39. irrelevant
40. channel (reaches for dictionary....)

Comments

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've been narky about online quizzes for a while. Even the ones from the commercial sites have a tendency to have been constructed by people who checked their answers against google instead of a good encyclopedia.

*rolleyes*

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Weird, isn't it? Where did people get the idea that just because it's posted on the net it's authoritative? The net is way LESS likely to be correct, seeing as how there's absolutely no control or review process. Anyone can post anything, and as long as the site it's on looks snazzy, people will just lap it up like gravy. Go figure.