In the questions below, choose the correct answer. (If you’re getting this by email, click on the Grammar Friday headline above to take the quiz.)
He rebutted my argument by producing proof that I was wrong.
He refuted my argument by producing proof that I was wrong.
Select the sentence that is written correctly.
Please give me fewer bagels.
Please give me less bagels.
Choose the word below that completes this sentence correctly: His pain was ___________________. It wasn't intense, but it had lasted for years.
chronic
acute
Select the word below that completes the following sentence correctly: The proposed New York City budget will ___________ the library system.
decimate
devastate
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