Q1. Choose the correctly spelt word.
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Answer: A. Necessary
The correct spelling is 'necessary': one c, two s.
Spelling Questions for SSC CGL (with Answers)
49 Spelling MCQs from the English Comprehension section, with answers and short explanations.
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Q2. Choose the correctly spelt word.
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Answer: A. Receive
After 'c' the order is 'ei': 'receive'.
Q3. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'a group of people appointed for a special task'.
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Answer: A. Committee
The correct spelling is 'committee' (c-o-m-m-i-t-t-e-e).
Q4. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'a place where people pay to eat meals'.
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Answer: A. Restaurant
The correct spelling is 'restaurant' (r-e-s-t-a-u-r-a-n-t).
Q5. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'trade or commercial activity'.
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Answer: D. Business
The correct spelling is 'business' (b-u-s-i-n-e-s-s).
Q6. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'the group of people who rule a country'.
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Answer: B. Government
The correct spelling is 'government' = 'govern' + 'ment'.
Q7. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'the second month of the year'.
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Answer: A. February
The correct spelling is 'February' (F-e-b-r-u-a-r-y).
Q8. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'a formal promise or assurance'.
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Answer: C. Guarantee
The correct spelling is 'guarantee' (g-u-a-r-a-n-t-e-e).
Q9. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'very pleasing to look at'.
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Answer: C. Beautiful
The correct spelling is 'beautiful' (b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l).
Q10. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'a particular event or time'.
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Answer: C. Occasion
The correct spelling is 'occasion' (o-c-c-a-s-i-o-n).
Q11. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'the natural world around us'.
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Answer: A. Environment
The correct spelling is 'environment' (environ + ment).
Q12. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'the day after today'.
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Answer: B. Tomorrow
The correct spelling is 'tomorrow' (t-o-m-o-r-r-o-w).
Q13. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'to divide or keep apart'.
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Answer: C. Separate
The correct spelling is 'separate' (s-e-p-a-r-a-t-e).
Q14. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'without any doubt'.
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Answer: B. Definitely
The correct spelling is 'definitely' (de + finite + ly).
Q15. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'a person who lives next door'.
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Answer: B. Neighbour
The correct (British) spelling is 'Neighbour': n-e-i-g-h-b-o-u-r.
Q16. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'something unexpected'.
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Answer: B. Surprise
The correct spelling is 'Surprise': s-u-r-p-r-i-s-e.
Q17. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'to succeed in reaching a goal'.
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Answer: B. Achieve
The correct spelling is 'Achieve': a-c-h-i-e-v-e.
Q18. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'the rules of a language'.
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Answer: C. Grammar
The correct spelling is 'Grammar': g-r-a-m-m-a-r.
Q19. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'a disagreement or quarrel'.
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Answer: D. Argument
The correct spelling is 'Argument': argue drops its final 'e' before '-ment'.
Q20. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'the day after Tuesday'.
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Answer: B. Wednesday
The correct spelling is 'Wednesday': W-e-d-n-e-s-d-a-y.
Q21. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'a chart showing the days, weeks and months of a year'.
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Answer: A. Calendar
The correct spelling is 'Calendar': c-a-l-e-n-d-a-r.
Q22. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'facts and information gained through learning'.
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Answer: B. Knowledge
The correct spelling is 'Knowledge': know + ledge.
Q23. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'a plant or part of a plant eaten as food'.
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Answer: B. Vegetable
The correct spelling is 'Vegetable': v-e-g-e-t-a-b-l-e.
Q24. Choose the correctly spelt word for 'belonging to another country'.
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Answer: B. Foreign
The correct spelling is 'Foreign': f-o-r-e-i-g-n.
Q25. Choose the correctly spelt word.
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Answer: D. Accommodate
The correct spelling is 'accommodate': two c's and two m's.
Q26. Choose the correctly spelt word.
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Answer: C. Rhythm
The correct spelling is 'rhythm'.
Q27. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'an incident or event'.
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Answer: C. Occurrence
The correct spelling is 'Occurrence': double 'c', double 'r', ending in '-ence'.
Q28. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'a feeling of great happiness and excitement'.
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Answer: A. Exhilaration
The correct spelling is 'Exhilaration' (ex-hil-a-ra-tion), with a silent 'h' after 'x'.
Q29. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'a period of a thousand years'.
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Answer: A. Millennium
The correct spelling is 'Millennium': double 'l', double 'n', ending in '-ium'.
Q30. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'a system of government run by officials'.
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Answer: C. Bureaucracy
The correct spelling is 'Bureaucracy', from 'bureau' + '-cracy' (rule).
Q31. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'the upkeep of something'.
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Answer: B. Maintenance
The correct spelling is 'Maintenance'; the 'ai' of 'maintain' changes to 'e' in the noun.
Q32. Choose the incorrectly spelt word.
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Answer: D. Liason
'Liason' is incorrect; the correct spelling is 'Liaison' (l-i-a-i-s-o-n). The other three words are spelt correctly.
Q33. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'a person whom one knows slightly'.
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Answer: C. Acquaintance
The correct spelling is 'Acquaintance', with 'acq-' at the start and '-ance' at the end.
Q34. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'the way in which a word is spoken'.
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Answer: C. Pronunciation
The correct spelling is 'Pronunciation'. The verb is 'pronounce', but the noun drops the 'o': pro-nun-ci-a-tion.
Q35. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'continued effort in spite of difficulties'.
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Answer: A. Perseverance
The correct spelling is 'Perseverance': per-se-ver-ance.
Q36. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'a set of written questions used to collect information'.
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Answer: B. Questionnaire
The correct spelling is 'Questionnaire', with double 'n' and ending in '-aire'.
Q37. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'a person who sets up a business, taking on financial risk'.
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Answer: D. Entrepreneur
The correct spelling is 'Entrepreneur': entre-pre-neur.
Q38. Choose the correctly spelt word.
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Answer: C. Conscientious
The correct spelling is 'conscientious'.
Q39. Choose the correctly spelt word.
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Answer: A. Embarrass
The correct spelling is 'embarrass'.
Q40. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'an expert judge in matters of taste'.
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Answer: D. Connoisseur
The correct spelling is 'connoisseur' (c-o-n-n-o-i-s-s-e-u-r).
Q41. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'close observation, especially of a suspect'.
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Answer: D. Surveillance
The correct spelling is 'surveillance', with 'ei' followed by a double 'l'.
Q42. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'playfully causing trouble'.
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Answer: C. Mischievous
The correct spelling is 'mischievous'; there is no 'i' after the 'v', and the vowels are 'ie'.
Q43. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'a peculiar habit or trait of an individual'.
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Answer: A. Idiosyncrasy
The correct spelling is 'idiosyncrasy', ending in '-crasy' (from Greek 'krasis'), not '-cracy'.
Q44. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'communication or cooperation between groups'.
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Answer: B. Liaison
The correct spelling is 'liaison' (l-i-a-i-s-o-n).
Q45. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'a meeting at an agreed time and place'.
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Answer: A. Rendezvous
The correct spelling is 'Rendezvous' (ren-dez-vous), from French.
Q46. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'involving disrespect towards something sacred'.
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Answer: B. Sacrilegious
The correct spelling is 'Sacrilegious', from 'sacrilege' (sacri + lege). It is often misspelt as 'sacreligious' by confusion with 'religious'.
Q47. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named, as in buzz or sizzle'.
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Answer: D. Onomatopoeia
The correct spelling is 'Onomatopoeia' (ono-mato-poe-ia), from Greek 'onoma' (name) and 'poiein' (to make).
Q48. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'a story told about a past event that one remembers'.
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Answer: A. Reminiscence
The correct spelling is 'Reminiscence' (remi-nis-cence), with 'sc' in the middle and '-ence' at the end.
Q49. Choose the correctly spelt word meaning 'done secretly, so as not to be noticed'.
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Answer: B. Surreptitious
The correct spelling is 'Surreptitious' (sur-rep-ti-tious).