Let's try something different this week. Test your knowledge. Which word is correct in each sentence below? For the answers, click on the link at the end of the test.
- The turkey got his just desserts/deserts for eating up our supply of seeds!
- Don't like creamed peas with your mashed potatoes? Grin and bare/bear it just the same.
- All awaited the arrival of Grandmother and Grandfather with baited/bated breath.
- His eloquent toast to the Pilgrims struck a responsive chord/cord in his guests' minds.
- Standish disembarked with a full complement/compliment of settlers.
- Praying/Preying mantises are good for your garden, because they eat lots of aphids.
- Their leader wasn't fazed/phased by the uprising of ill will.
- Extreme weather tested the Pilgrims' medal/meddle/metal/mettle.
- The settlers paid rapt/rapped/wrapped attention to Squanto's directions for growing corn.
- After all, a friend in need is a friend in deed/indeed.
- The smoke in the distance peaked/peeked/piqued their interest.
- The Mayflower got underway/under way in 1620.
- Use a clean compress to stanch/staunch the flow of blood.
- Their faith was a matter of principal/principle.
- Once given free reign/rein over their own destinies, their economy flourished.
- You better toe/tow the line or you're back on the boat to England!
- The soup kitchen just off Capitol/Capital Hill has a great Thanksgiving feast for homeless people.
- Squanto had been taken to Europe, but was now back in his old stamping/stomping grounds.
- Stop! Or I'll sic/sick my attack turkey on you!
- William Bradford and his shipmates pored/poured over the Mayflower Compact for days before signing it.
- He flaunted/flouted every rule in the book and every piece of good advice.
- The ship floundered/foundered in the storm, and the entire crew was lost.
- Chief Massasoit spoke pidgin/pigeon English at best, and relied on Squanto to translate for him.
- Global warming will (or won't) wreck/wreak havoc on the American economy.
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