Questions on misspelt words are often appearing in many competitive examinations including Banking and Staff Selection Commission Examinations.
Candidates need to improve their vocabulary skills to answer these types of questions. Candidates will be asked to find the correctly spelt word or misspelt
word from the options given in the examination.
Model Questions
Directions (Qs. 1 - 15): Under each question below, five words A, B, C, D and E are given. Find out the wrongly spelt word.
1. A) Abbrevate B) Elevate C) Cultivate D) Appropriate E) Excavate
Explanation: ‘Abbreviate’ means ‘to shorten’ (a word, phrase or text). Ans: A
2. A) Absence B) Abundence C) Attendance D) Appearance E) Ignorance
Explanation: ‘Abundance’ means ‘a large quantity of something’. Ans: B
3. A) Apparent B) Transparent C) Ignorent D) Warrant E) Arrogant
Explanation: ‘Ignorant’ means ‘lacking knowledge and awareness.’ Ans: C
4. A) Receive B) Achieve C) Conceive D) Beleive E) Relieve
Explanation: ‘Believe’ means ‘to trust’ or ‘to accept’ Ans: D
5. A) Cemetary B) Dormitory C) Necessary D) Commentary E) Symmetry
Explanation: ‘Cemetery’ means ‘a large burial ground’. Ans: A
6. A) Succeed B) Conceed C) Proceed D) Precede E) Conclude
Explanation: ‘Concede’ means ‘to give’, ‘to admit’. Ans: B
7. A) Attendant B) Defendant C) Dependant D) Impendent E) Oxidant
Explanation: ‘Dependent’ means ‘one who depend on others.’ Ans: C
8. A) Tenacious B) Audacious C) Loquacious D) Fellacious E) Delicious
Explanation: ‘Fallacious’ means ‘based on false assumptions.’ Ans: D
9. A) Adolecent B) Fluorescent C) Pleasant D) Transparent E) Emigrant
Explanation: ‘Adolescent’ means ‘teenager’. Ans: A
10. A) Discoverer B) Governer C) Partner D) Survivor E) Endeavour
Explanation: ‘Governor’ means ‘a person in an authority to rule’ Ans: B
11. A) Beautiful B) Deceitful C) Greatful D) Rightful E) Dreadful
Explanation: ‘Grateful’ means ‘thankful for someone’. Ans: C
12. A) Numerous B) Prosperous C) Humorous D) Surplous E) Conscious
Explanation: ‘Surplus’ means ‘an excess amount of something’. Ans: D
13. A) Liesure B) Pleasure C) Treasure D) Measure E) Pressure
Explanation: ‘Leisure’ means ‘Free time’. Ans: A
14. A) Guidance B) Acceptence C) Subsidence D) Appliance E) Grievance
Explanation: ‘Acceptance’ means ‘showing will or consent’ (to something). Ans: B
15. A) Independence B) Expectance C) Maintainance D) Acceptance E) Allowance
Explanation: ‘Maintenance’ means ‘the process of keeping something in good condition’. Ans: C
Directions (Qs. 16 - 30): Under each question below, five words A, B, C, D and E are given. Find out the correctly spelt word. If there is no correctly spelt word, please select option ‘E’ (None of the above) as your answer.
16. A) Mischievous B) Delecious C) Malacious D) Suspiscious E) None of the above
Explanation: ‘Mischievous’ means ‘naughty’. Ans: A
17. A) Suppresion B) Oppression C) Agression D) Obsetion E) None of the above
Explanation: ‘Oppression’ means ‘cruelty or unjust treatment’. Ans: B
18. A) Corageous B) Advantegous C) Outrageous D) Contegious E) None of the above
Explanation: ‘Outrageous’ means ‘shockingly bad or wildly exaggerated’. Ans: C
19. A) Reminicense B) Cohrence C) Adherance D) Perseverance E) None of the above
Explanation: ‘Perseverance’ means ‘persistence in doing something despite difficulty. Ans: D
20. A) Quarantine B) Valentene C) Routene D) Pristene E) None of the above
Explanation: ‘Quarantine’ means ‘a phase of isolation from contagious disease or people’. Ans: A
21. A) Servent B) Relevant C) Obsarvant D) Suficient E) None of the above
Explanation: ‘Relevant’ means ‘appropriate to’. Ans: B
22. A) Compitition B) Partetion C) Superstition D) Compailation E) None of the above
Explanation: ‘Superstition’ means ‘irrational belief’. Ans: C
23. A) Sincearly B) Infinitly C) Liesurely D) Severely E) None of the above
Explanation: ‘Severely’ means ‘to an undesirably great or intense degree’. Ans: D
24. A) Vengeance B) Impedence C) Relavance D) Patence E) None of the above
Explanation: ‘Vengeance’ means ‘giving punishment or taking revenge for an issue’. Ans: A
25. A) Afilliation B) Humiliation C) Concilation D) Paliation E) None of the above
Explanation: ‘Humiliation’ means ‘Embarrassing someone’. Ans: B
26. A) Imaginery B) Centinary C) Veterinary D) Pulmanary E) None of the above
Explanation: ‘Veterinary’ means ‘relating to the treatment of farm and domestic animals.’ Ans: C
27. A) Adament B) Embarasment C) Reimbursment D) Recruitment E) None of the above
Explanation: ‘Recruitment’ means ‘the action of taking new personnel to an organization’. Ans: D
28. A) Definite B) Difenite C) Defainate D) Definate E) None of the above
Explanation: ‘Definite’ means ‘Clearly true or real’. Ans: A
29. A) Commemmorate B) Commemorate C) Comemorate D) Comemmorate E) None of the above
Explanation: ‘Commemorate’ means ‘celebrate an event or show respect/ recall someone or something’. Ans: B
30. A) Negociate B) Nuisence C) Negotiate D) Imediate E) None of the above
Explanation: ‘Negotiate’ means ‘to obtain something by discussion’. Ans: C
