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OET Listening – Spell Check 1

Majority of the OET candidates lose score in listening due to poor spelling.

Below, read and understand the correct spelling of the following words and then take your test by activating the “Let’s Play” button.

  1. Absence Absense
  2. Acceptable – Acceptible
  3. Accidentally – Accidently
  4. Accommodate – Accomodate (cc mm)
  5. Achieve – Acheive
  6. Acknowledge – Acknowlege, Aknowledge
  7. Acquaintance – Acquaintence, Aquaintance (CQ)
  8. Acquire – Aquire, Aquire (cq)
  9. Address – Adress, Addres (dd, ss)
  10. Adultery – Adultary, Adultry
  11. Advisable – Adviseable, Advizable
  12. Aggression – Agression
  13. Aggressive – agressive ()
  14. Almost – Allmost (Single l)
  15. A lot – Alot
  16. Amateur – Amatuer, Amature
  17. Annually – Anually, Annualy
  18. Apparent – Apparant, Aparent, Apparrent, Aparrent
  19. Arctic – Artic
  20. Argument – Arguement
  21. Atheist – Athiest, Athist
  22. Awful – Awfull, aweful

Tips: Only “full” has 2 Ls. When full comes at the end of other words (beautiful, wonderful, dutiful, etc.), there is a single L. However, in adverb forms (beautifully, wonderfully, etc.), there are 2 Ls.

Below is a test to improve your spelling skills. Remember, they are found in the OET samples.

  • Question of

    He was carrying a _________.

    • suetcase
    • suitcase
    • suitecase

    Correct Wrong

  • Question of

    She had __________ pain.

    • intence
    • intense

    Correct Wrong

  • Question of

    She __________ needed some comfort from someone.

    • really
    • rially
    • realy

    Correct Wrong

  • Question of

    The _______ packs gave her some ____________.

    • compresion; relief
    • compression; relief
    • compression; releaf

    Correct Wrong

  • Question of

    She was referred to ____ _____________.

    • a osteopath
    • an austeopath
    • an osteopath

    Correct Wrong

  • Question of

    ___________ can relieve certain kinds of pain.

    • accupuncture
    • acupancture
    • acupuncture

    Correct Wrong

  • Question of

    Mrs Wight _______ as she ___________ the stairs.

    • sliped; descended
    • slipped; descended
    • slipped; discended

    Correct Wrong

  • Question of

    The problem was a ________ ______.

    • herniated disc
    • haerniated disc
    • herniated disk

    Correct Wrong

  • Question of

    Having _______ in an area with blisters is _________.

    • ichting; chaotic
    • itching; cheotic
    • itching; chaotic

    Correct Wrong

  • Question of

    The _________ will die down soon.

    • affects
    • effects
    • iffects

    Correct Wrong

  • Question of

    She will ________ your care happily, _______ when she is in her bad temper.

    • accept; except
    • except; accept
    • accept; expect

    Correct Wrong

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