2010s

Question 1

1) Adverse

2) Averse

Answer 1

1) Negative and unpleasant

2) Strong disliking or opposed to

Question 2

1) Maize

2) Maze

Answer 2

1) A tall plant grown in many plants of the world which are eaten, made into flour, fed to animals

2) An intricate and confusing network of interconnecting pathways

Question 3

1) Medal

2) Meddle

Answer 3

1) A small flat piece of metal with a design or inscription stamped or inscribed on it

2) To become involved in something that does not concern you

Question 4

1) Imperial

2) Imperious

Answer 4

1) Connected with an empire

2) Proud

Question 5

1) Voracity

2) Veracity

Answer 5

1) Excessive eagerness
2) quality of being true honest and accurate

Question 6

1) Illusion

2) Allusion

Answer 6

1) An idea or belief which is not true

2) something that is said or written to make you think of a particular person or thing

Question 7

1) Ordinance

2) Ordnance

Answer 7

1) A law or rule made by the government or authority

2) Military Supplies and material

Question 8

1) Willing

2) Wilful

Answer 8

1) To be happy to do something if needed
2) Said or done deliberately

Question 9

1) Capital

2) Capitol

Answer 9

1) A city of a country usually where a central government operates

2) the building in which a state legislature meets

Question 10

1) Assay

2) Essay

Answer 10

1) Trial of metal or ore for quantity

(A metallurgist did an assay on the metal and determined it contained nickel)

2) A short piece of writing

Question 11

1) Envelop

2) Envelope

Answer 11

1) to cover and surround something completely

2) A flat, usually square or rectangular, paper container for a letter

Question 12

1) Decree

2) Degree

Answer 12

1) An official statement that something must happen

2) Amount or level of something

Question 13

1) Desolate

2) Dissolute

Answer 13

1) A place that is empty or without people

2) Enjoying immoral activities

Question 14

1) Wet

2) Whet

Answer 14

1) Covered in water or another liquid

2) To increase someone’s desire or interest in something

Question 15

1) Adjoin

2) Adjourn

Answer 15

1) To be next to or joined to something

2) Break off for later resumption

Question 16

1) Allay

2) ally

Answer 16

1) to make something especially a feeling less strong

2) Support someone who is in a difficult situation

Question 17

1) Bases

2) Basis

Answer 17

1) Plural form of base

2) The foundation of an idea

Question 18

1) Click

2) Clique

Answer 18

1) To make a short sharp sound

2) A small group of people with shared interests who spend time together

Question 19

1) Distract

2) Detract

Answer 19

1) Prevent from giving full interest

2) Reduce or take away the value

Question 20

1) Liable

2) Libel

Answer 20

1) Legally Bound

2) A published fake statement causing ill repute to someone

Question 21

1) Plaintive

2) Plaintiff

Answer 21

1) Sad, sorrowful and mournful

2) A person who makes a formal complaint against someone in a court of law

Question 22

1). Valet

2) Varlet

Answer 22

1) A hotel employee with a job to park cars of guests

2) Menial, low fellow, rascal

Question 23

1) Monitor

2) Mentor

Answer 23

1) A student in school who carries out special duties

2) Experienced advisor

Question 24

1) Complacent

2) Complaisant

Answer 24

1) Self satisfied in a negative way

2) to accept other people’s opinion and action and to do what people want

Question 25

1) Penitence

2) Penance

Answer 25

1) repentance, remorse, contrition

2) An act that shows you feel sorry about something

Question 26

1) Crevice

2) Crevasse

Answer 26

1) A narrow crack in a rock

2) A deep open crack in ice

Question 27

1) Beneficient

2) Beneficial

Answer 27

1) Giving help

2) Favourable

Question 28

1) Adverse

2) Averse

Answer 28

1) Negative and unpleasant

2) Not oppose to doing something

Question 29

1) Altogether

2) All together

Answer 29

1) Entirely, completely

2) used by a group to indicate all members performed or stood in unity, collectively

Question 30

1) Allude

2) Elude

Answer 30

1) To mention something in an indirect way

2) To manage to escape or avoid someone

Question 31

1) Braise

2) Braze

Answer 31

1) Cook in liquid

2) Solder with an allay of brass and zinc

Question 32

1) Curb

2) Kerb

Answer 32

1) Control or limit

2) The edge of a raised path at the side of a road

Question 33

1) Wrath

2) Wroth

Answer 33

1) Extreme anger

2) Angry

Question 34

1) veracity

2) voracity

Answer 34

1) The quality of being true

2) Excessive eagerness

Question 35

1) Subtler
2) sutler

Answer 35

1) Elusive

2) Supplier to army

Question 36

1) Retenue

2) Retinue

Answer 36

1) restraint, self control

2) A group of people who travel with an important person to provide support and help

Question 37

1) Minute

2) Minuet

Answer 37

1) Extremely small

2) A slow, stately ballroom dance

Question 38

1) Callous

2) Callus

Answer 38

1) Cruel, ruthless

2) A thickened and hardened part of skin

Question 39

1) Born

2) Borne

Answer 39

1) birth

2) Carried or transported by a thing

Question 40

1) Faint

2) Feint

Answer 40

1) Possible but unlike

2) Any distracting or deceptive manoeuvre

Question 41

1) Dinghy

2) Dingy

Answer 41

1) A small inflatable rubber boat

2) Shabby, squalid

(On a cold night, I walked out of a dingy hotel in handcuffs)

Question 42

1) Lose

2) Loose

Answer 42

1) suffer a loss

2) not tight

Question 43

1) Waiver

2) Waver

Answer 43

1) Renunciation, surrender

2) Falter, wobble

(His voice wavered with a hint of uncertainty)

Question 44

1) Shear

2) Sheer

Answer 44

1) Cut off with scissors

2) To deviate from a course

Question 45

1) Resister

2) Resistor

Answer 45

1) Someone who offers opposition

2) A devise designed to introduce resistance into an electric circuit