Still - steal - steel

I think there should be no punishment for people who …….. food to survive.

Most cars have some ……. in their body.

2. Choose the word in parentheses that completes each sentence correctly.

1. She worked harder (than, then) she had ever worked before.

2. If I had known your number, I would (have, of) called.

3. The bingo game has (all ready, already) started.

4. (Whose, Who's) shorts are hanging from the flagpole?

5. The program changes will not (affect, effect) you.

6. What is your (principal, principle) reason for wearing a parrot on your head?

7. (Whose, Who's) hiding in your closet?

8. Last year Beckham (lead, led) the league in goals.

9. Get your facts first, and (than, then) you can distort them as much as you please.

10. The ultimate result of shielding men from the (affects, effects) of folly is to fill the world with fools.

11. There cannot be a crisis next week: my schedule is (all ready, already) full.

12. Computers are being called on to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework (formally, formerly) eaten by the dog.

13. Kate (implied, inferred) that she had a good alibi, but Jack (implied, inferred) otherwise from her nervous behavior.

14. Many are predicting that the TV series Lost won’t last much longer because (fewer, less) people are watching these (days, daze).

15. Although the recording (device, devise) was primitive, (you're, your) voice came across clearly.

16. I was (conscience, conscious) after the collision but (to, too) frightened (to, too) move.

17. (Quiet, Quite, Quit) was restored, and the judge (preceded, proceeded) with the case.

18. Following the ice storms, (there, their, they're) (maybe, may be) a plague of locusts and a swarm of frogs.

19. The handle was (lose, loose) and could (have, of) fallen off at any moment.

3. Select the word in each set that completes the sentence accurately and appropriately (Commonly confused words).

adverse or averse
A recent study found that many air fresheners are high in chemicals that have been linked to _____ health effects in high doses.

1. allude or elude
The young hockey star was dubbed "the phantom" for his ability to _____ defenders.

 

2. complement or compliment
The malty flavor of buckwheat honey makes it a nice _____ to blue cheese.

 

3. device or devise
Amazon unveiled the Kindle, its digital-book reading _____, at the end of 2007.

 

4. discreet or discrete
The genes, _____ bits of DNA on the chromosomes in each cell, control all body activities by directing the production of essential chemicals.

 

5. floundered or foundered
When his ship _____ on the coast of Scotland in 1883, the Danish captain thought he saw a seven-pointed star in the sky.

 

6. historic or historical
In 1958, a Spanish photographer accompanied Fidel Castro and his band of revolutionaries during their ____ push to Havana.

 

7. imply or infer
"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not _____ that all who are laughed at are geniuses." (Carl Sagan)

 

8. incredible or incredulous
All births are _____ moments, but some are more momentous than others.

9. later or latter
Facebook has about 300 million users and Twitter a tenth of that number, but the _____ has been winning the headline battle in recent months.

 

10. pored or poured
Night after night, the president _____ over memos arguing for and against the choice that confronted him.

 

11. principal or principle
A higher salary was Sol's _____ reason for accepting the job offer.

 

12. racked or wracked
He _____ his brains to remember, but he could not call to mind a single thing!

 

13. sensual or sensuous
"The beauty of Moroccan palaces is made up of details of ornament and refinements of _____ delight too numerous to record." (Edith Wharton)

 

14. shear or sheer
"English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment, and education--sometimes it's _____ luck, like getting across a street." (E.B. White)

 

15. simple or simplistic
Much of what we thought we knew about the evolution of dinosaurs turns out to be _____ or out-and-out wrong.

 

16. stationary or stationery
The train passengers spent the night in the makeshift hotels of ____ carriages parked on railway sidings.

 

17. temerity or timidity
Jay-Z always sounds bold and confident, but then of course _____ is rarely a character trait in the world of hip-hop.

 

18. veracious or voracious
Be it a Jeep Cherokee or a Ford Explorer or supersized to a Humvee, the SUV soon became the _____ and luxurious symbol of boomer excess throughout the 1990s.

 

19. Who or Whom
"_____ the gods wish to destroy they first call promising." (Cyril Connolly)