Confusing words | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 |

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[Confusing words #2]
FOCUS: Words that are easily confused because of spelling or meaning.
Use the corpus to solve the following exercises:

1) Search for "Scot", "Scottish", and "Scotch" in the corpus; which of the three has only been used about people?
Scot
Scottish
Scotch

2) What is the most common meaning of "Scotch" in the first twenty lines of hits in the corpus (sort concordance by keyword)?
product of Scotland
whisky
Scottish

3) Search for "eminent" and "imminent" in the corpus; which of the two occurs most frequently in the corpus?
equally frequent
imminent
eminent

4) In line six in the corpus, "imminent" comes closest in meaning to which of the follwing three?
outstanding
fast-approaching
threatening

5) Is it possible for a lawyer to be "eminent" or "imminent"?
eminent
imminent
neither

6) Search for "invaluable" in the corpus; in line three it comes closest in meaning to which of the following?
valuable
expensive
inexpensive

7) Search for "invaluable*" and "valuable*"; in the corpus, which of the two has been used as a noun in the plural?
invaluable
valuable
both

8) "Farther" and "further" can be said to be synonyms, but they have different uses. Search the corpus to find out which of the two has been used clause-initially to express the meaning "additionally"?
further
farther
both


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