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Answers to the Big Quiz on Commonly Confused Words

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Here are the answers to the 50 questions in our Big Quiz on Commonly Confused Words.

  1. affect
  2. illusion
  3. aural
  4. capital
  5. serial
  6. chord
  7. clique
  8. climactic
  9. corroborate
  10. credulous
  11. Dazed
  12. diffuse
  13. eminent
  14. fare
  15. phase
  16. finely, finely
  17. flare
  18. flout
  19. flew
  20. formerly
  21. forth
  22. jive
  23. Hearty
  24. homed
  25. hurtling
  26. ingenuous
  27. leeches
  28. led
  29. liable
  30. lose
  31. minor
  32. officious
  33. palate
  34. pique
  35. plane
  36. poll
  37. proscribed
  38. principal
  39. prostrate
  40. regrettable
  41. reticent
  42. restless
  43. rifled
  44. roll
  45. staunch
  46. suit
  47. tact
  48. troupe
  49. veil
  50. whose

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