1.
That makes no ______________!
Answer: B
It is sense.
Sense is meaning. Cents are coins, and the two are pronounced identically.
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Homonyms Questions and Answers
2.
Please ___________ for me outside the cinema.
Answer: A
It is wait.
To wait is to stay until someone comes. Weight is heaviness, and the two are pronounced identically.
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3.
Every night I like to read __________ to my children.
Answer: B
It is aloud.
Aloud means out loud. Allowed is the past tense of allow, and the two are pronounced identically.
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4.
Exercise build ___________ and reduces fat.
Answer: A
It is muscle.
Muscle is the tissue that exercise builds. A mussel is a shellfish, and the two sound the same.
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5.
To give someone a wide _____________ means to stay out of their way.
Answer: A
It is berth.
A berth is a ship's mooring place, and to give a wide berth is to keep well clear. Birth is being born, and the two sound the same.
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6.
The penthouse ___________ is the most expensive apartment in the building.
Answer: A
It is suite.
A suite is a set of rooms, and it is pronounced sweet - from the French, the same word as suit. Sweet is the taste.
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7.
I. His views are opposite to mine.
II. The speech was aposite to the occasion.
Answer: A
Only sentence I is correct.
Opposite means contrary, which is right in the first sentence. The second needs apposite, meaning apt or fitting - and it is spelt aposite there besides. Interchanging the two words would not help, since apposite is not among them.
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8.
An Island is a piece of land surrounded by the ___________.
Answer: B
It is sea.
The sea is the body of water surrounding an island. To see is to perceive with the eyes, and the two are pronounced alike.
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9.
She spent the afternoon pulling out the weeds and ___ in her garden.
Answer: A
It is tares.
Tares are weeds, familiar from the parable of the wheat and the tares. Tears, rhyming with airs, are rips; the two are pronounced identically.
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10.
The cow kicked over the milk ______.
Answer: A
It is pail.
A pail is a bucket. Pale means light in colour, and the two sound the same.
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Topics
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Double Synonyms
- Homonyms
- One Word Substitution
- Reading Comprehension
- Cloze Test
- Theme Detection
- Deriving Conclusions from Passages
- Sentence Completion
- Passage Completion
- Fill in the Blanks
- Spotting Errors
- Sentence Improvement
- Passage Correction
- Choose the Correct - Incorrect Sentence
- Reconstruction of Sentence
- Sentences Rearrangement
- Reconstruction of Paragraphs
- Rearrangement of Jumbled Parts
- Word Formation
- Idioms and Phrases
- Active-Passive voice
- Direct-Indirect Speech
- Transformation of Sentences
- Spelling Test
- Phrasal Verbs
- Parts of Speech
- Tenses
- Articles and Determiners
- Prepositions
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Figures of Speech and Poetic Devices