I. Piane living and high thinking should be our motto.
II. Men in the plains are generally less hardy than the hillmen.
Answer: B
Only sentence II is correct.
The plains are flat country, which the second sentence uses rightly. The first needs plain living, meaning simple, and has it as Piane. A plane is a flat surface or an aircraft.
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Young deer like to ____________ in the meadow on a bright sunny day.
Answer: B
It is gambol.
To gambol is to skip and frisk about, from the Italian for a leg. To gamble is to bet, and the two are pronounced identically.
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The best-selling author's novel studied the psychology of a ______ murderer.
Answer: B
It is serial.
Serial means occurring in a series, so a serial murderer kills repeatedly. Cereal is grain, and the two are pronounced identically.
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An unmoving object is said to be ______.
Answer: A
It is stationary.
Stationary with an a means not moving. Stationery with an e is writing materials - remember that envelopes and stationery both have an e.
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Chickens can also be referred to as poultry or ______.
Answer: B
It is fowl.
A fowl is a bird, especially one kept for food. Foul means offensive, and the two sound the same.
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He skidded because he did not apply the ______.
Answer: B
It is brake.
A brake stops a vehicle, which is what he failed to apply. To break is to shatter or to interrupt; both are pronounced alike.
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Is there any ______ in the soup?
Answer: B
It is meat.
Meat is flesh eaten as food. To meet is to come together, and the two sound the same.
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Dale bought a new ___________ to cut his lawn.
Answer: A
It is mower.
A mower cuts grass. More means a greater quantity, and the two merely resemble each other in spelling.
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She fastened the leather belt around her slender ____________.
Answer: A
It is waist.
The waist is the narrow part of the body. Waste is squandering or refuse, and the two are pronounced identically.
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Andrew ______ his bicycle to school every day.
Answer: B
It is rode.
Rode is the past tense of ride. A road is a way for traffic, and rowed is what one does with oars; all three are pronounced identically.
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