Confusable Words: Currant and Current, Mislead and Deceive Exercise

Answers

1. Ants love to eat currants.
2. Current fashions are more casual than those of the 1960s.
3. He gave the report a cursory glance and tossed it aside.
4. He arrived with his customary promptness.
5. The nation must put a curb on its spending to balance the economy.
6. His loss didn’t damp / dampen his zest for living.
7. With that cynical outlook, he does not trust anyone.
8. The negotiations reached a deadlock / standoff / impasse after two hours.
9. The boy’s directions misled us, and we never did find the lake.
10. She deceived her fiancé by dating others.
11. The magazine doesn’t accept any deceitful / deceptive / misleading ads.
12. From her conversation, I deduced that she had a large family.