He showed his ______________ by continuing despite an injury.
Answer: B
It is mettle.
Mettle is spirit and courage - to show one's mettle. Metal is the substance, and the two are pronounced identically; mettle is in fact a variant spelling of metal, from the idea of what a person is made of.
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The commercial jet _______________ swiftly through the clouds.
Answer: A
It is flew.
Flew is the past tense of fly. Flu is the illness, short for influenza, and the two sound the same.
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The hunter slowly raised his gun and aimed at the ______.
Answer: B
It is deer.
A deer is the animal a hunter aims at. Dear means beloved or expensive, and the two sound the same.
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