Excellent Tuition Network’s English Contest!

 

 

** Winners (for those who pass this Quiz out of 19 Questions) will each receive a set of Birthstone Zodiac Graphics which comes in 12 adorable graphics in a zip folder, to be emailed to you – if you get a pass in this Contest!!

 

** For those who did not pass, don’t fret. At the end of this Quiz, please write in your Zodiac sign and your zodiac graphic will be emailed to you!

 

** There is No Deadline For This Contest.

 

** Name of the winners will be listed on the Contest page of Excellent Tuition Network!

 

 

:: Please send in your answers either in Word doc or via email to: mskoh@ymail.com; Email heading: ETN English Contest. Your results and the answers will be emailed to you, together with your prize [i.e. a set of 12 adorable birthstone graphics which comes in a zip folder] to be emailed to you in an attachment ::

 

 

Contest: Very Difficult Spellings Quiz

 

 

1)  A treatise for religious creeds:

a. Catichism           b. Catechism           c. Chatechism           d. Catachism

 

 

2)  CPR will help to _____ someone.

a. Rescusitate           b. Recuscitate           c. Resusitate           d. Resuscitate

 

 

3)  Several track and field events combined into one event:

a. Decathlon           b. Decathalon           c. Decathelon           d. Decathlen

 

 

4)  People who are getting married are generally ______ to each other.

a. Commited           b. Comited           c. Committed           d. Comitted

 

 

5)  This is the study of the history of a species' evolution.

a. Philogeny           b. Phylogeny           Phylogony           Phiylogeny

 

 

6)  My thoughts are so convoluted, they are almost ________.

a. Unexpressible           b. Inexpressable           c. Unexpressable           d. Inexpressible

 

 

7)  Some people use this type of device to aid their memory.

a. Mneumonic           b. Mnemonic           c. Pneumonic           d. Nemonic

 

 

8)  _____ lotions can make dry skin feel better.

a. Emollient           b. Immollient           c. Emmolient           d.   Emmollient

 

 

9)  You have an interest in death and the afterlife, so you study this:

a. Escetology           b. Eschatology           c. Eschetalogy           d. Eschatelogy

 

 

10)  It's  important to understand the English ______.

a. Hierarchy           b. Heirarchy           c. Hirarchy           d. Hierarky

 

 

11)  I found a popcorn _____ on the floor.

a. Colonel           b. Kernal           c. Kernel           d. Cernel

 

 

12)  It's important to keep up the _______ on your car.

a. Maintenance           b. Maintanance           c. Maintenance           d. Maintanence

 

 

13)  She loves wine. In fact, she considers herself an _______.

a. Afichionado           b. Aphicionado           c. Aficianado           d. Aficionado

 

 

14)  He was such a gentleman, offering me his ________.

a. Hankerchief           b. Handkerchief           c. Handkerchef           d. Handkerchif

 

 

15)  Someone with this trait is prone to outbursts of anger.

a. Irascible           b. Irasible           c. Iracible           d. Irascable

 

 

16)  When you are driving follow this sequence: mirror, signal..................................?

a. manouvre           b. maneuver           c. manouevre           d. manoeuvre

 

 

17)  An Italian pasta shaped like long flat ribbons.

a. talliatelli           b. tagliatelle           c. taglitelli           d. tagallatelle

 

 

18)  Things that shine in the dark may be .....

a. flourescent           b. flurescent           c. fluorescent           d. fleurescent

 

 

 

 

19)  The horse chestnut family?

a. Hippocasanaceae           b. Hippocastanaceae           c. Hippcastsnaceae           d.     Hippocastanaceeae

 

 

 

Ok, last 3 Questions:

 

 

** What is your zodiac sign?  ______________________

 

** What is your full name?  ________________________

 

** Your Email address for the results to be mailed to:  ________________________________

 

 

(Please copy and paste the above 3 questions, together with your 19 answers of this contest, and email to: mskoh@ymail.com. Email heading: ETN English Contest).

 

 

 

Thank you for your participation!

 

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