LOOK AFTER / LOOK BACK / LOOK FORWARD

1. If you look ___________ your clothes they last a lot longer.

2. I’m looking ___________ to seeing you all next month.

3. When you look ___________ on this in a year or two, it won’t seem so bad.

4. In the circumstances, I look ___________ to receiving your cheque within the next seven days.

5. He looked ___________ on his time as president with pride.

6. I think looking ___________ her elderly mother is quite a drain on her energy.

METER / METRE

1. You have to sit two _________ away from the TV screen.

2. You’ll need some change for the parking _________.

3. The women’s 200 _________ event will be followed by the men’s 100 _________.

4. Britain’s water companies are planning to _________ water consumption.

PALATE / PALLET / PALETTE

1. The __________ is defined anatomically as the roof of the mouth.

2. The portrait is dominated by her own image, holding a __________ and a paintbrush in her hands.

3. The warehouse will hold more than 90,000 __________ storing 30 million Easter eggs.

4. Matisse’s __________ typically consists of bright blues, greens and oranges.

5. Exhausted, Jean slumped into the straw __________ and closed her eyes.

6. Jackson had developed quite a discerning __________ over the years.

PEDAL / PEDDLE

1. The products are generally ____________ door to door.

2. We were ____________ like mad against the wind, but didn’t seem to be getting anywhere.

3. Further tests are planned on gas, brake and clutch ____________.

4. The organization has ____________ the myth that they are supporting the local population.

SHORTAGE / SHORTNESS

1. The disease may cause sweating, nausea, vomiting, and ____________ of breath.

2. There’s a  ____________ of food and shelter in the refugee camps.

3. The long hot summer has led to serious water  ____________.

4. Because of the  ____________ of time, question 4 remained unanswered.

TORTUOUS / TORTUROUS

1. They had a ____________ five days of fitness training.

2. The travellers took a ____________ route.

3. On the other hand, however, he wouldn’t have to continue with that ____________ pain anymore.

4. Varicose veins are ____________, twisted, or lengthened veins.

 

 

Key

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	along	a long	along	A long
2	ascent	accent	assented	ascent	accents	assent
3	ventures	adventures	adventure	venturing
4	affront	effrontery	affront	effrontery
5	isle	aisle	Isle	aisles
6	all together	altogether	all together	altogether
7	elusive	allusive	allusive	elusive
8	alternate	alternative	alternative	alternate
9	amoral	immoral	amoral	immoral
10	Amid	among	among	amid
11	anecdote	antidotes	anecdotes	antidote
12	apprised	appraise	appraised	apprised
13	artistes	artist	artistes	artists
14	assumed	presumed	assumed	presume
15	oral	aural	aural	oral
16	avocation	vocation	avocation	vocation
17	breech	breach	breached	breech
18	Certain	certain	curtain	certain	curtain
19	course	coarse	coarse	course	course	course, coarse
20	cue	queue	cue	queue
21	diffusing	defused	defused	diffused
22	draught	draft	draughts	draft	draught
23	duel	dual	dual	duel
24	elicit	illicit	elicit	illicit
25	errands	errant	errand	errant	errands
26	finally	at last	lastly	in the end	lastly	in the end	at last	finally
27	flout	flaunt	flout	flaunting
28	floundered	foundered	founder	floundered	floundered
29	freeze	freeze	frieze	freeze	frieze
30	grizzly	grisly	grizzly	gristly	grisly
31	hoard	hordes	hoarded	hordes
32	holy	wholly, wholly	holly	Holy	holly	wholly
33	lived	stay	stayed	living
34	loath	loathe	loath	loathe
35	after	forward	back	forward	back	after
36	metres	meter	metres, metres	meter
37	palate	palette	pallet	palette	pallet	palate
38	peddled	pedalling	pedals	peddled
39	shortness	shortage	shortages	shortness
40	torturous	tortuous	torturous	tortuous

 

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