Common Misuses of Words pg 3

One of the ____ that make up good breeding is consideration for the rights of others.

• elements

• factors

Answer explanation

Element means "a component part,"

Factor means "one of the circumstances or facts which produces a result."

The greatest ___ that contributed to the dictator's downfall was his inability to take advice that he did not relish.

• element

• factor

Answer explanation

Element means "a component part,"

Factor means "one of the circumstances or facts which produces a result."

The dictatorships are reluctant to permit their natives to ____.

• emigrate

• immigrate

Answer explanation

To emigrate is to leave a country permanently.

To immigrate is to enter a country in order to settle there.

Most of the people who ____ to the middle west of our country in the 1840s came from Norway and Germany.

• emigrated

• immigrated

Answer explanation

To emigrate is to leave a country permanently.

To immigrate is to enter a country in order to settle there.

The world was shocked by the ____ of the crime.

• enormity

• enormousness

Answer explanation

Enormity refers to a moral quality and means "a lapse in standard ethics or morality."

Enormousness means "extraordinary size or amount."

The ____ of the building impresses everyone who sees it for the first time.

• enormity

• enormousness

Answer explanation

Enormity refers to a moral quality and means "a lapse in standard ethics or morality."

Enormousness means "extraordinary size or amount."

Because hers was an ____ situation, Alice was permitted to turn in her paper two days late.

• exceptional

• exceptionable

Answer explanation

Exceptional means "out of the ordinary; in the naturef an exception."

Exceptionable means objectionable.

I thought Mary's conduct highly ____; everyone else in the class also took exception to her action.

• exceptional

• exceptionable

Answer explanation

Exceptional means "out of the ordinary; in the naturef an exception."

Exceptionable means objectionable.

Scott went ____ afield than any other writer to collect ballad.

• farther

• further

Answer explanation

Farther refers to distance.

Further to degree or extent.

The ____ one reads in the book, the more interesting one finds it.

• farther

• further

Answer explanation

Farther refers to distance.

Further to degree or extent.