Spelling and Vocabulary Test 
Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future. 
__Jim Rohn

Ponder over the questions and clues given below and then compare your solution with the answers which are hidden in the white background and will be visible when you click the button at the bottom.

(A)  Spelling Check (American usage)
Most of the ten words below have been spelled incorrectly. Spot the correctly spelled words and find the correct spelling of others without the aid of dictionary or spell checker? Mark 1 for each correct answer

Horrendous
Hideous; dreadful: “Horrendous explosions shook the whole city” (Howard Kaplan).
 

Stupendous
Of astounding force, volume, degree, or excellence; marvelous.
Amazingly large or great; huge. See synonyms at enormous.

Hazardous
Marked by danger; perilous.
Depending on chance; risky.

2. Influential
2. Having or exercising influence, One that is of considerable importance or influence:

3. Irrevocable
3. Impossible to retract/change/take back 

4. Revoke
4. To void or annul by recalling, withdrawing, or reversing: 

5. Renovate
5. To restore to an earlier condition, as by repairing or remodeling, to impart new vigor or to; revive.

6. Renowned
6. Having fame, famous, well known

7. Infamous
7. Having an exceedingly bad reputation; notorious. 

8. Reputation
8. The general estimation in which a person is held by the public. ,the state or situation of being held in high esteem.

9. Notoriety
9. The quality or condition of being notorious; ill fame. 
An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal. 

10. Rogue
10. One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp: A wandering beggar; a vagrant. 

1. regrettably, regretfully
regrettably: deserving of regret
regretfully: with regret

2. oral, verbal
oral: relating to speech
verbal: relating to words

3. persistent, insistent
persistent: unwilling to give up
insistent: unyielding

4. prescribe, proscribe
prescribe: to establish a rule
proscribe: to prohibit

5. query, inquiry
query: a question
inquiry: an investigation

6. quote, quotation
quote: to repeat another’s words
quotation: quoted words 

7. historic, historical
historic: having an influence on history
historical: relating to past events or the study of history

8. imply, infer
imply: to suggest
infer: to surmise

9. in behalf of, on behalf of
in behalf of: for the benefit of
on behalf of: on the part of

10. ingenious, ingenuous
ingenious: inventive
ingenuous: naively candid