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The exercise at this link provides practice on 64 commonly misspelled words. The exercises below ask you to type in the words you see below, after reading a phonetic spelling of each word. abhorrence, accommodate, acknowledgment, acquaintance, adviser, acquit, alleged, already, aficionado, asinine, argument, auxiliary bachelor, ballistic, burqa, bankruptcy, bellwether, benefited, berserk, bona fide, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, baccalaureate, barbiturate caffeine, colossal, corroborate, Caribbean, counterfeit, compatible, conceive, congratulations, conscience, conscious, coup d’etat, connoisseur deity, demagogue, dependent, desirable, disservice, definitely, do’s and don’ts, dumbfounded, drought, disc jockey, desiccate, dilemma, Dr Pepper eerie, eighth, embarrass, emphysema, especially, exaggerate, exhilarating, exorbitant, explanation, endeavor, employee, espresso February, financier, fiery, fluorescent, foreign, fortunately, forfeit, fraudulent, fuchsia, fulfill, facetious, feasible gaudy, genealogy, garrulous, gauge, glamorous, goodbye, grammar, grievance, guarantee, guerrilla, gaiety, garish harebrained, heroes, height, heir, hemorrhage, hierarchy, hitchhiker, hygiene, homicide, hysterical, handkerchief, harass illegitimate, irascible, iridescent, inconvenience, independent, innuendo, intercede, Internet, irrelevant, irresistible, ifs and buts, illegible jeopardy, jewelry , judgment, judicious, khaki, kidnapped, kimono, kindergarten, knowledgeable, keenness laboratory, loneliness, legitimate, leisure, liaison, license, likable, lightning, likelihood, luscious, lieutenant, legerdemain malarkey, marijuana, meander, mayonnaise, medicine, memento, mimicked, miscellaneous, mischievous, misspell, manageable, maneuver, matriculate naive, nuisance, neighbor, niece, noticeable, occasion, occurrence, OK’d, ordinarily, omitted, newsstand, nickel, Oyez paraphernalia, paralyzed, peaceable, perseverance, presumptuous, prerogative, precede, privilege, Philippines, pursue, parallel, particularly quandary, query, questionnaire, queue, religious, reminiscence, receipt, rhyme, rhythm, rock ‘n’ roll, reconnoiter, ridiculous, repressible sacrilegious, soothe, scissors, seizure, silhouette, sizable, skiing, subpoena, surveillance, symmetry, schedule, short-lived teenage, temperamental, thoroughly, transferal, tournament, twelfth, truly, tumultuous, tying, tyrannous, theater, toward uncontrollable, undoubtedly, usable, vacuum, vacillate, vengeance, vicious, villain, veterinary, vilify, volume, virtually Wednesday, weird, wherever, willful, wiry, witticism, wondrous, X-ray, zany, zucchini, wholly, wiener |
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Special thanks to Dr. LaRae Donnellan of Florida A&M University for providing the material for this exercise.