California POST Test Spelling Accuracy 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which spelling is correct?
- accomodate
- accommodate (Correct answer)
- acommodate
- acomodate
Correct answer: accommodate
'Accommodate' has double 'c' and double 'm'.
Question 2: Choose the correctly spelled word.
- occurance
- occurrance
- occurrence (Correct answer)
- occurence
Correct answer: occurrence
'Occurrence' is spelled with double 'c' and double 'r'.
Question 3: Which word is spelled correctly?
- liason
- liaison (Correct answer)
- liasion
- liasson
Correct answer: liaison
'Liaison' contains the sequence l-i-a-i-s-o-n.
Question 4: Select the correct spelling.
- perseverance (Correct answer)
- perseverence
- perserverance
- perseverance
Correct answer: perseverance
'Perseverance' ends in '-ance', not '-ence'.
Question 5: Which option is spelled correctly?
- diarrhea (Correct answer)
- diarrhoea
- diarrea
- diarhea
Correct answer: diarrhea
The standard American English spelling is 'diarrhea' with double 'r'.
Question 6: Choose the correctly spelled word.
- supercede
- supersede (Correct answer)
- superceed
- superseed
Correct answer: supersede
'Supersede' ends in '-sede', derived from Latin 'sedere'.
Question 7: Which spelling is correct?
- recieve
- recive
- receive (Correct answer)
- receve
Correct answer: receive
'Receive' follows the rule 'i before e except after c'.
California POST Test Spelling Accuracy 2
Which spelling is correct?