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Answer: A
It is brethren.
The old plural of brother, kept for members of a religious or fraternal body. It is one of the few English plurals formed by a vowel change and an -en ending, like children.
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Answer: D
It is acquaintance.
One c, then qu: acquaint comes through Old French from the Latin accognitare, to make known. The ending is -ance, not -ence.
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Answer: D
It is isochromatic.
From the Greek isos, equal, and chroma, colour - of the same colour. The o joining the two parts is the usual Greek connecting vowel.
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Answer: D
Correct answer: Definitely
The correct spelling is definitely. There is no a anywhere in it, and the vowel that so often appears as one is an i. The best safeguard is to see the word finite inside it: de-finite-ly. Something definite has been marked out with limits, from the Latin finis, an end - the same root as finish, final, infinite and define. The second error the options offer is dropping the e before -ly. English keeps it: the adjective definite simply takes -ly. The same holds for completely, extremely and immediately, while truly, duly and wholly are the exceptions that drop it. It is consistently among the most misspelt words in English, and the finite test disposes of every variant at once.
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Answer: C
It is notoriety.
Built on notorious, which keeps its o. The ending is -iety, as in variety and society.
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Answer: B
It is prosecutrix.
The feminine of prosecutor, formed with the Latin -trix ending as in executrix and aviatrix.
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Answer: D
It is provincially.
Built on provincial, which keeps its i; -ly is then added whole, giving the double l.
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Answer: D
It is centigrade.
From the Latin centum and gradus, a hundred steps - the scale of a hundred degrees between the freezing and boiling points of water.
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Answer: A
It is accountancy.
Two c's. The word is built on account, from the Latin computare, to reckon, with the assimilated prefix ad-.
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Answer: D
It is benefited.
One t. The final consonant doubles only when the last syllable is stressed, and benefit is stressed on the first, so it follows offered and profited rather than permitted.
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