Saturday, May 24, 2014

oDesk English Spelling Test (U.S. Version) Answer 2014



oDesk English Spelling (U.S. Version)
Question 1:
Identify the misspelled word in the list below.

a.     Parallel
b.     Prevalent
c.     Prejudice
d.     Perserverance
Answer: d. 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.
a.     fiancĂ©
b.     finance
c.     feancĂ©
d.     fience
Answer: b. 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.
a.     architecture
b.     arkhitecture
c.     arcitecture
d.     arckitecture
Answer: a. architecture     

Question 4:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.

a.     Priveledge
b.     Privilage
c.     Privilege
d.     Privelege
Answer: c. 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.
a.     loose
b.     looze
c.     lose
d.     louse
Answer: c. lose     

Question 6:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.     Ligitimate
b.     Legitimate
c.     Legetimate
d.     Legitemate
Answer: b. Legitimate     

Question 7:
Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Peter always makes such a _____________ of himself!
a.     nuisance
b.     nuisents
c.     newsanse
d.     nuisince
Answer: a. nuisance     

Question 8:
Identify the misspelled word in the list below.
a.     Hemorrhage
b.     Harass
c.     Hankerchief
d.     Hypocrisy
Answer: c. Hankerchief     

Question 9:
Identify the misspelled word in the list below.
a.     Yacht
b.     Youthful
c.     Yeilding
d.     Yesterday
Answer: c Yeilding
     
Question 10:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.     Embarassment
b.     Embrassement
c.     Embarrasment
d.     Embarrassment
Answer: a. Embarassment     
Question 11:
Identify the misspelled word in the list below.
a.     Occasion
b.     Occurrence
c.     Orangutan
d.     Opponant
Answer: d. Opponant     

Question 12:
Identify the misspelled word in the list below.
a.     Quixotic
b.     Quite
c.     Questionaire
d.     Quarantine
Answer: c. Questionaire      

Question 13:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.     Adress
b.     Addrress
c.     Addres
d.     Address
Answer: d. Address      

Question 14:
Identify the misspelled word in the list below.
a.     Sophomore
b.     Supersede
c.     Susceptable
d.     Spontaneous
Answer: c. Susceptable      

Question 15:
Identify the misspelled word in the list below.
a.     Rhythmical
b.     Reminiscence
c.     Rheumatism
d.     Resevoir
Answer: d. Resevoir      

Question 16:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.     Goverment
b.     Governmant
c.     Government
d.     Govermant
Answer: c. Government     

Question 17:
Identify the misspelled word in the list below.
a.     Cachet
b.     Connoisseur
c.     Charateristic
d.     Catastrophe
Answer: c. 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.
a.     illumenate
b.     iluminate
c.     illuminate
d.     elluminate
Answer: c. 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.
a.     vicous
b.     vicious
c.     vicoius
d.     vicius
Answer: b. vicious      

Question 20:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.     Neccesary
b.     Necessary
c.     Neccessary
d.     Necesary
Answer: b. Necessary     

Question 21:
Identify the misspelled word in the list below.
a.     Fluorescent
b.     Fullfil
c.     Facsimile
d.     Fictitious
Answer: b. 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.
a.     reincanation
b.     reincarenation
c.     reincarnation
d.     reincantation
Answer: c. reincarnation     

Question 23:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.     Heinous
b.     Henous
c.     Heinus
Answer: a. Heinous     

Question 24:
Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

The church members accused the cult of _______________ practices.
a.     sacreligious
b.     sacrelegious
c.     sacrilegious
d.     sacrilgious
Answer: c. 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.
a.     amnesty
b.     amnasty
c.     anmesty
d.     emnesty
Answer: a. 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.
a.     accquired
b.     ecquired
c.     acquired
d.     akquired
Answer: c. 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.
a.     dissapointing
b.     dissappointing
c.     disapointing
d.     disappointing
Answer: d. disappointing  

Question 28:
Identify the misspelled word in the list below.
a.     Managable
b.     Millennium
c.     Minuscule
d.     Miscellaneous
Answer: a. Managable     

Question 29:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.     Excesive
b.     Exccesive
c.     Excessive
d.     Exceesive
Answer: c. 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.
a.     kindergarden
b.     kindegarten
c.     kindergarten
d.     kindegarden
Answer: c. kindergarten     

Question 31:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.     Pronounciation
b.     Pronuciation
c.     Pronuncitation
d.     Pronunciation
Answer: d. Pronunciation     

Question 32:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.     Leiutenant
b.     Luietenant
c.     Lieutanent
d.     Lieutenant
Answer: d. 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.
a.     twelvth
b.     twelfth
c.     twelfeth
d.     twelth
Answer: b. twelfth      

Question 34:
Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Their relationship was plagued by __________ problems.
a.     perpetual
b.     perpechual
c.     purpetual
d.     perptual
Answer: a. 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.
a.     plagiarism
b.     plagiarizm
c.     plagerism
d.     plagirism
Answer: a. plagiarism     

Question 36:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.     Efficency
b.     Efficentsy
c.     Efficiensy
d.     Efficiency
Answer: d. Efficiency     

Question 37:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.     Temperamental
b.     Tempermental
c.     Temperamentle
d.     Temparamental
Answer: a. Temperamental
Question 38:
Identify the misspelled word in the list below.
a.     Dexterity
b.     Desicate
c.     Dyeing
d.     Desecrate
Answer: b. Desicate     

Question 39:
Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Sam _________ a successful political campaign.
a.     orchestraited
b.     orchestrated
c.     orchestreated
d.     orcestrated
Answer: b. 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.
a.     diminutive
b.     diminuative
c.     deminutive
d.     dimminutive
Answer: a. diminutive  

Question 41:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.     Idiosyncracy
b.     Idiosincrasy
c.     Idiosyncrasy
d.     Ideosyncracy
Answer: c. Ideosyncracy          

Question 42:
Identify the misspelled word in the list below.
a.         Wierd
b.         Wired
c.         Whined
d.         Willful
Answer: a. Wierd  

Question 43:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.         Bureaucrasy
b.         Buroucracy
c.         Bureaucracy
d.         Beuraucracy
Answer: c. 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 ______________ .
a.         labretory
b.         laboratary
c.         laboratory
d.         labratory
Answer: c. laboratory
Question 45:
Identify the misspelled word in the list below.
a.         Mischeivous
b.         Misanthrope
c.         Mussel
d.         Malicious
Answer: a. Mischeivous

Question 46:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.         Unanimus
b.         Unanemous
c.         Unanimess
d.         Unanimous
Answer: d. 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.
a.         Neumonia
b.         Penumonia
c.         Pneumonia
d.         Pnuemonia
Answer: c. Pneumonia

Question 48:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.         Synonymous
b.         Synonymus
c.         Synonimous
d.         Sinonymus

Answer: a. Synonymous
Question 49:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.         Referense
b.         Refrence
c.         Reference
d.         Referance
Answer:  c. 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.
a.         specificaly
b.         specifically
c.         specifycally
d.         specificly
Answer: b. specifically

Question 51:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.         Restaureter
b.         Restaurater
c.         Restaurateur
d.         Restourateur
Answer: c. Restaurateur

Question 52:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.         Manoeuvar
b.         Manouver
c.         Maneuver
d.         Manuver
Answer: c. Maneuver

Question 53:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.         Vengeance
b.         Vengance
c.         Vengents
d.         Vengence
Answer: a. Vengeance

Question 54:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.         Vacuum
b.         Vaccuum
c.         Vacumm
d.         Vaccum
Answer: a. Vacuum

Question 55:
Identify the misspelled word in the list below.
a.         Councelor
b.         Condescend
c.         Camouflage
d.         Criticize
Answer: a. Councelor

Question 56:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.         Gauge
b.         Gaje
c.         Guage
d.         Gaige
Answer: a. 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.
a.         barbecue
b.         barbequeue       
c.         barbycue
d.         barbcue
Answer: a. barbecue

Question 58:
Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct spelling of the missing word.

Hazel Dormouse is a _________ creature.
a.         nocternal
b.         nocturnal
c.         noctarnal
d.         nocturnal
Answer: b. nocturnal

Question 59:
Choose the correct spelling of the word from the options below.
a.         Reminiscience
b.         Reminiscence
c.         Reminescence
d.         Reminisense
Answer: b. 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 __________.
a.         pshycology
b.         psycology
c.         psyhcology
d.         psychology
Answer: d. psychology

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