Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word. Each question is followed by four suggested answers. Choose the most appropriate one.

1.    Time will —————— all wounds.

a)    Heel
b)    Heal
c)    Hail
d)    Hale

2.     She ——————— from a royal family.

a)    Heels
b)    Hails
c)    Heals
d)    Hales

3.    He is quite ——————- and hearty.

a)    Hail
b)    Hale
c)    Heal
d)    None of these

4.    Do you follow the ——————-?

a)    Heard
b)    Herd
c)    Horde
d)    hoard

5.    The grocer was arrested because he ——————- grain.

a)    Heard
b)    Herd
c)    Hoarded
d)    Horde

6.    —————— worship is against the principles of Islam.

a)    Idle
b)    Idol
c)    Ideal

d)    None of these

7.    It was an —————— comment but he took offence at it.

a)    Innocent
b)    Innocuous
c)    Innovative
d)    None of these

8.    I found the ——————– part of the film more interesting than the former part.

a)    Later
b)    Letter
c)    Latter
d)    Latest

9.    My bag is made of ———————-

a)    Lather
b)    Leather
c)    Latter
d)    Later

10.    This ointment is sure to ——————— the pain.

a)    Lesson
b)    Lease
c)    Lessen
d)    Less

11.    The chief guest inaugurated the function by ——————— the ceremonial lamp.

a)    Lightening
b)    Lighting
c)    Lightning
d)    Liting

12.    Flashes of ——————- still frighten me.

a)    Lightening
b)    Lighting
c)    Lightning
d)    None of these

13.    I —————– silly jokes.

a)    Loth
b)    Loath
c)    Loathe
d)    None of these

14.    The picture was put on the ——————— shelf.

a)    Mental
b)    Mettle
c)    Mantle
d)    Mantel

15.    He is very ——————

a)    Mean
b)    Means
c)    Mien
d)    None of these

Answers

1.    Heal (cure somebody or something)
2.    Hails (have origin in)
3.    Hale (fit and strong)
4.    Herd (large group of domestic animals; group of people)
5.    Hoarded (To hoard is to store a supply of something secretly)
6.    Idol (object of adoration)
7.    Innocuous (harmless)
8.    Latter (second of two)
9.    Leather
10.    Lessen (mitigate, reduce)
11.    Lighting
12.    Lightning
13.    Loathe (dislike)
14.    Mantle (Mantle-shelf is the shelf above the fireplace)
15.    Mean