Confused Words

This is the short redhead who has composed The Commonly Confused Words Test, a fun and instructive quiz that gauges your knowledge of words such as lose and loose (pet peeves I often see misused on the Internet). Even better, she's posted a key with the correct responses drawn from dictionary.com. I quibble with one of her opening statements: Good communication is not necessarily about using an expansive vocabulary. It is about properly using the words and punctuation you already know. I raced through the 40 test items just marking random responses to see a sample of results and ensure validity. What a delightful surprise to find that the program detected I was guessing, even if my answers confused it!

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