100+ Misspelled Words In Quotes 46-60
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Students will evidence their knowledge of 15 of the 100 most misspelled words and be able to apply them to famous quotes.
Questions and Answers
- 1.As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally __________ for the happiness or misery of the future man. Samuel Richardson
- A.
Loose
- B.
Layed
- C.
Laid
- D.
Libary
- 2.A ___________ is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.Norman Cousins
- A.
Library
- B.
Pretty
- C.
Libary
- D.
Opposite
- 3.Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not _________ at the same time. Dave Winfield
- A.
Lose
- B.
Loose
- C.
Loze
- D.
Loss
- 4.America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and ________ our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln
- A.
Lose
- B.
Loose
- C.
Loze
- D.
Loss
- 5.Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so _______ to so few. Winston Churchill
- A.
Menie
- B.
Money
- C.
Meny
- D.
Many
- 6.I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I __________, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality. James Joyce
- A.
Loose
- B.
Mint
- C.
Meant
- D.
Ment
- 7.A hero is one who knows how to hang on one _________ longer. Novalis
- A.
Minute
- B.
Minut
- C.
Minit
- D.
Minnute
- 8.The dread of evil is a _____________ more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. John Locke
- A.
Once
- B.
Many
- C.
Laid
- D.
Much
- 9.The willow which bends to the tempest, ________escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. Albert Schweitzer
- A.
Often
- B.
Oftin
- C.
Offen
- D.
Auften
- 10.The key to life is accepting challenges. __________ someone stops doing this, he's dead. Bette Davis
- A.
Wonce
- B.
Once
- C.
Onse
- D.
Wunse
- 11.The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the ________ direction. Plato
- A.
Oposit
- B.
Opposite
- C.
Opisit
- D.
Oppisite
- 12.A good compromise, a good ___________of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' Barack Obama
- A.
Peece
- B.
Peace
- C.
Piece
- D.
Piese
- 13.I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I __________ much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else. Kurt Cobain
- A.
Priddy
- B.
Pritty
- C.
Prity
- D.
Pretty
- 14.You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to ____________ children? Those who've never had any. Bill Cosby
- A.
Raise
- B.
Raze
- C.
Raize
- D.
Rise
- 15.A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot ___________ great ones. Lord Chesterfield
- A.
Recieve
- B.
Receive
- C.
Reseeve
- D.
Resieve
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