odesk US English Basic Skills Test 2012

Question 1:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

1. Parallel
2. Prevalent
3. Prejudice
4. Perserverance

Answer is:       Perserverance       

Question 2:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Sally’s nervous __________ left her standing at the altar.

1. Fiancé
2. Finance
3. Feancé
4. Fience

Answer is:     Finance

Question 3:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Arthur spent hours admiring the gothic ____________of all those French cathedrals.

1. Architecture
2. Arkhitecture
3. Arcitecture
4. Arckitecture

Answer is:       Architecture       

Question 4:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Priveledge
2. Privilage
3. Privilege
4. Privelege

Answer is:      Privilege       

Question 5:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Let me tie your mittens to your sleeves so you don't ______________ them.

1. Loose
2. Looze
3. Lose
4. Louse

Answer is:     Lose       

Question 6:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Ligitimate
2. Legitimate
3. Legetimate
4. Legitemate

Answer is:       Legitimate       

Question 7:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Peter always makes such a _____________ of himself!

1. Nuisance
2. Nuisents
3. Newsanse
4. Nuisince

Answer is:     Nuisance       

Question 8:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

1. Hemorrhage
2. Harass
3. Hankerchief
4. Hypocrisy

Answer is:       Hankerchief       

Question 9:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

1. Yacht
2. Youthful
3. Yeilding
4. Yesterday

Answer is:       Yeilding

       

Question 10:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Embarassment
2. Embrassement
3. Embarrasment
4. Embarrassment

Answer is:    Embarassment       

Question 11:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

1. Occasion
2. Occurrence
3. Orangutan
4. Opponant

Answer is:    Opponant       

Question 12:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

1. Quixotic
2. Quite
3. Questionaire
4. Quarantine

Answer is:       Questionaire        

Question 13:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Adress
2. Addrress
3. Addres
4. Address

Answer is:      Address        

Question 14:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

1. Sophomore
2. Supersede
3. Susceptable
4. Spontaneous

Answer is:       Susceptable       

Question 15:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

1. Rhythmical
2. Reminiscence
3. Rheumatism
4. Resevoir

Answer is:       Resevoir        

Question 16:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Goverment
2. Governmant
3. Government
4. Govermant

Answer is:       Government       

Question 17:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

1. Cachet
2. Connoisseur
3. Charateristic
4. Catastrophe

Answer is:       Charateristic

Question 18:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

The purpose of your report should be to ___________ the most relevant facts, not to obscure them.

1. illumenate
2. iluminate
3. illuminate
4. elluminate

Answer is:       illuminate       

Question 19:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

The protesters hurled ___________ insults at us as we walked by.

1. vicous
2. vicious
3. vicoius
4. vicius

Answer is:    vicious        

Question 20:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Neccesary
2. Necessary
3. Neccessary
4. Necesary

Answer is:    Necessary       

Question 21:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

1. Fluorescent
2. Fullfil
3. Facsimile
4. Fictitious

Answer is:    Fullfil       

Question 22:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

My father does not believe in ____________ , but my mother does.

1. reincanation
2. reincarenation
3. reincarnation
4. reincantation

Answer is:    reincarnation       

Question 23:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Heinous
2. Henous
3. Heinus

Answer is:   Heinous       

Question 24:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

The church members accused the cult of _______________ practices.

1. sacreligious
2. sacrelegious
3. sacrilegious
4. sacrilgious

Answer is:       sacrilegious       

Question 25:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

The judge granted the reluctant witness complete ____________ from prosecution for his part in the crime.

1. amnesty
2. amnasty
3. anmesty
4. emnesty

Answer is:     amnesty       

Question 26:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

He __________ a summer house, an exercise bike, and a hamster in the divorce settlement.

1. accquired
2. ecquired
3. acquired
4. akquired

Answer is:      acquired        

Question 27:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

The clown’s performance was _______________, to say the least.

1. dissapointing
2. dissappointing
3. disapointing
4. disappointing

Answer is:       disappointing   

Question 28:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

1. Managable
2. Millennium
3. Minuscule
4. Miscellaneous

Answer is:       Managable       

Question 29:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Excesive
2. Exccesive
3. Excessive
4. Exceesive

Answer is:       Excessive        

Question 30:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Mrs. Baker took her ______________ class on a field trip to the zoo.

1. kindergarden
2. kindegarten
3. kindergarten
4. kindegarden

Answer is:       kindergarten       

Question 31:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Pronounciation
2. Pronuciation
3. Pronuncitation
4. Pronunciation

Answer is:       Pronunciation       

Question 32:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Leiutenant
2. Luietenant
3. Lieutanent
4. Lieutenant

Answer is:       Lieutenant       

Question 33:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

On the ____________ day of Christmas, Lucy was annoyed to find her yard full of noisy drummers drumming.

1. twelvth
2. twelfth
3. twelfeth
4. twelth

Answer is:   twelfth        

Question 34:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Their relationship was plagued by __________ problems.

1. perpetual
2. perpechual
3. purpetual
4. perptual

Answer is:       perpetual        

Question 35:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

The professor made it clear that ___________ would not be tolerated.

1. plagiarism
2. plagiarizm
3. plagerism
4. plagirism

Answer is:      plagiarism       

Question 36:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Efficency
2. Efficentsy
3. Efficiensy
4. Efficiency

Answer is:       Efficiency       

Question 37:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Temperamental
2. Tempermental
3. Temperamentle
4. Temparamental

Answer is:       Temperamental

Question 38:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

1. Dexterity
2. Desicate
3. Dyeing
4. Desecrate

 Answer is:      Desicate       

Question 39:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Sam _________ a successful political campaign.

1. orchestraited
2. orchestrated
3. orchestreated
4. orcestrated

Answer is:       orchestrated        

Question 40:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Helen was surprised by the __________ stature of her blind date.

1. diminutive
2. diminuative
3. deminutive
4. dimminutive

Answer is:       diminutive       

Question 41:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Idiosyncracy
2. Idiosincrasy
3. Idiosyncrasy
4. Ideosyncracy

Answer is:       Ideosyncracy       

Question 42:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

1. Wierd
2. Wired
3. Whined
4. Willful

Answer is:      Wierd    

Question 43:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Bureaucrasy
2. Buroucracy
3. Bureaucracy
4. Beuraucracy

Answer is:       Bureaucracy

Question 44:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

No one knew what devious experiments the scientist conducted in his ______________ .

1. labretory
2. laboratary
3. laboratory
4. labratory

Answer is:      laboratory

 

Question 45:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

1. Mischeivous
2. Misanthrope
3. Mussel
4. Malicious

Answer is:       Mischeivous

Question 46:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Unanimus
2. Unanemous
3. Unanimess
4. Unanimous

Answer is:       Unanimous

Question 47:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

After my grandfather was diagnosed with chronic_________, he moved to Arizona.

1. Neumonia
2. Penumonia
3. Pneumonia
4. Pnuemonia

Answer is:       Pneumonia

Question 48:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Synonymous
2. Synonymus
3. Synonimous
4. Sinonymus

Answer is:       Synonymous

Question 49:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Referense
2. Refrence
3. Reference
4. Referance

Answer is:       Reference

Question 50:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

The waitress brought me a plate of squid even though I _____________ asked for clams.

1. specificaly
2. specifically
3. specifycally
4. specificly

Answer is:      specifically

Question 51:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Restaureter
2. Restaurater
3. Restaurateur
4. Restourateur

Answer is:       Restaurateur

Question 52:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Manoeuvar
2. Manouver
3. Maneuver
4. Manuver

Answer is:      Maneuver

Question 53:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Vengeance
2. Vengance
3. Vengents
4. Vengence

Answer is:       Vengeance

Question 54:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Vacuum
2. Vaccuum
3. Vacumm
4. Vaccum

Answer is:     Vacuum

Question 55:

Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

1. Councelor
2. Condescend
3. Camouflage
4. Criticize

Answer is:     Councelor

Question 56:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Gauge
2. Gaje
3. Guage
4. Gaige

Answer is:   Gauge

Question 57:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

The annual _____________ was ruined when a family of bears stole all the hotdogs.

1. barbecue
2. barbequeue
3. barbycue
4. barbcue

Answer is:     barbecue

Question 58:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Hazel Dormouse is a _________ creature.

1. nocternal
2. nocturnal
3. noctarnal
4. nocturnal

Answer is:      nocturnal

Question 59:

Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

1. Reminiscience
2. Reminiscence
3. Reminescence
4. Reminisense

Answer is:       Reminiscence

Question 60:

Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Emma has always been fascinated by the way the mind works, so she’s decided to get a degree in ______.

1. Pshycology
2. Psycology
3. Psyhcology
4. Psychology

Answer is:       Psychology