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TOEFL Vocab: Common Word Errors
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toefl
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 43 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. VERB! the act of drawing air into out of the lungs
they're
accept
chose
breathe
2. When you don't win
then
it's
lose
breath
3. Listen and pay attention
too
hear
pail
their
4. Thing you carry water in
breath
breathe
accept
pail
5. To select
choose
it's
their
lose
6. Head of a school - remember - the princiPAL is your PAL!
hear
it's
its
principal
7. That time
there
by
its
then
8. Contraction of 'who is'
9. To bring about; the result of something
effect
its
affect
too
10. Contraction of 'they are' - if your friends can say 'they are' - they're right!
11. Out loud
aloud
who's
than
chose
12. Receive willingly something given or offered
you're
accept
through
they're
13. Past tense of choose
whose
their
who's
chose
14. An opinion about what should be done
then
aloud
advise
advice
15. Give advice to
advise
it's
principle
weather
16. Contraction of 'you are' - if you can say 'you are' - you're right!
17. Comparison; 'I'd rather go to the beach than school'
weather
loose
then
than
18. Word that refers to something that belongs to someone
by
chose
effect
whose
19. Receive willingly something given or offered
alright
principle
threw
accept
20. Refers to a place - just as the word 'here' refers to a place. remember from 'here to there'.
alot
your
breath
there
21. Used to talk about a choice between two or more possibilities
here
affect
whether
alright
22. Become loose or looser or less tight
loose
it's
advice
pale
23. Preposition; usually 1 of 3 - not the number or the excessive one!
then
pail
to
breathe
24. The present location
alot
aloud
chose
here
25. NOT A WORD - DOES NOT EXIST IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!
alot
they're
advice
accept
26. In a satisfactory or adequate manner
their
effect
alright
then
27. Permitted
allowed
pail
loose
advice
28. Possessive - something that belongs to you
than
allowed
its
aloud
29. Is it raining? sunny?
it's
alot
pail
weather
30. Something personal; think of the word 'heir' which refers to a person
effect
thorough
their
buy
31. Possessive - something that belongs to you
effect
then
your
too
32. More of something - like the letter 'o'...too many 'O's'!
then
advise
who's
too
33. NOUN; the actual AIR that is inhaled and exhaled when you BREATHE
it's
pale
its
breath
34. With little or no color
then
threw
pale
too
35. To leave out
than
except
pale
alot
36. Contraction of 'it is' - if you can say 'it is' - it's right!
37. Obtain by purchase
too
buy
by
hear
38. Painstakingly careful and accurate
thorough
than
buy
allowed
39. So as to pass a given point; 'She went by me'
by
accept
advice
pale
40. Past tense of throw
by
threw
buy
advise
41. Having finished or arrived at completion
alot
its
through
their
42. When something leaves a mark or has an impression on you
advise
affect
through
allowed
43. A basic truth or law or assumption;
loose
they're
whose
principle