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English Synonyms / Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level # 8
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Synonyms for error and fault Q1
I haven't done this and you are making a terrible ....... in suspecting me. (a) error
Q2
(b) mistake
(c) blunder
(d) gaffe
Elizabeth realized that it had been a ....... to take her daughter to the house where her father was killed some years before. (a) mistake
Q3
(d) misunderstanding
(b) error
(c) blunder
(d) lapse
Without her glasses she made a ....... and filled in the wrong form. (a) error
Q5
(c) fault
The accident was due to the ....... of the driver. (a) slip
Q4
(b) slip
(b) blunder
(c) lapse
(d) fault
Jacqueline is a good secretary but lately she often makes ....... in such simple things as typing and uploading information. (a) blunders
Q6
(b) faults
(c) slips
(d) blunders
(b) error
(c) gaffe
(d) misunderstanding
I wouldn't call this a bad mistake, it is simply a ....... of the pen. (a) error
Q9
(d) misunderstandings
Don't even think of shifting the blame on me, please! It's not my ....... for what happened. (a) fault
Q8
(c) faults
My literature teacher speaks so quickly that he often makes ....... of the tongue. (a) mistakes
Q7
(b) errors
(b) blunder
(c) gaffe
(d) slip
It is written here that I have a sister but there must be some ....... because I am an only child. (a) error
(b) misunderstanding
(c) fault
(d) slip
Q10 He was in a coma for more than two weeks after the accident but now he has woken up and the doctors say he has a ....... of memory. He can hardly remember what had happened. (a) gaffe
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(b) lapse
(c) slip
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(d) error
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