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Test Review: Easily Confused Words

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

clever; skillful; resourceful

a)

perpetrate

b)

ingenious

c)

allusion

2.

to go before

a)

contagious

b)

continual

c)

precede

3.

spread by contact; catchy

a)

contagious

b)

expand

c)

personnel

4.

having a sense of right and wrong

a)

illusion

b)

veracious

c)

conscience

5.

well known; prominent

a)

confidant

b)

eminent

c)

apprise

6.

unbelieving; skeptical

a)

incredulous

b)

uninterested

c)

immerge

7.

to rise out of

a)

clique

b)

emerge

c)

irascible

8.

a short, sharp sound

a)

erasable

b)

deference

c)

click

9.

being aware

a)

conscious

b)

personal

c)

voracious

10.

unsophisticated; straightforward; artless

a)

perpetuate

b)

ingenous

c)

contiguous

11.

private

a)

continuous

b)

expend

c)

personal

12.

to spend; to consume or use up

a)

expend

b)

continual

c)

veracious

13.

too improbable to be believed; unbelievable

a)

confident

b)

incredible

c)

appraise

14.

to submerge or disappear in liquid

a)

deference

b)

immerge

c)

adverse

15.

a friend or advisor

a)

disinterested

b)

imminent

c)

confidant

16.

courteous yielding to another; respect

a)

deference

b)

averse

c)

clique

17.

truthful; honest

a)

veracious

b)

proceed

c)

continuous

18.

a group of people employed by a business or organization

a)

contiguous

b)

conscious

c)

personnel

19.

having a great appetite for food or pursuit of an activity; ravenous

a)

voracious

b)

illusion

c)

ingenious

20.

to increase in size

a)

personal

b)

conscious

c)

expand

21.

removable by rubbing or scraping

a)

averse

b)

erasable

c)

difference

22.

to evaluate; to set a value on

a)

adverse

b)

deference

c)

appraise

23.

having an unfavorable feeling toward; disinclined

a)

averse

b)

confident

c)

eminent

24.

dissimilarity; unlikeness

a)

difference

b)

clique

c)

uninterested

25.

uninterrupted; ceaseless

a)

proceed

b)

continuous

c)

voracious

26.

an indirect reference

a)

veracious

b)

contagious

c)

allusion

27.

repeated regularly

a)

continual

b)

perpetuate

c)

illusion

28.

to prolong the existence of; to cause to be remembered

a)

continual

b)

personnel

c)

perpetuate

29.

to inform

a)

apprise

b)

imminent

c)

averse

30.

easily angered

a)

averse

b)

imminent

c)

irascible

31.

about to happen; impending

a)

imminent

b)

clique

c)

confidant

32.

not paying attention; indifferent; not interested

a)

erasable

b)

uninterested

c)

apprise

33.

a false vision of reality

a)

veracious

b)

continual

c)

illusion

34.

sharing an edge or border; nearby

a)

contiguous

b)

veracious

c)

perpetrate

35.

to go forward; to move in an orderly manner

a)

proceed

b)

conscience

c)

ingenuous

36.

to be guilty of; to commit

a)

contagious

b)

perpetrate

c)

ingenious

37.

a small, exclusive group

a)

clique

b)

erasable

c)

eminent

38.

contrary to one's interests; opposing

a)

incredible

b)

disinterested

c)

adverse

39.

certain; sure; assured

a)

confident

b)

disinterested

c)

imminent

40.

free of bias; impartial

a)

difference

b)

apprise

c)

disinterested