Writing Handbook Exercises
 

Confusables

For each sentence below, select the correct word in the parentheses. The content of each sentence will determine only one suitable choice.

example:

How will these changes ( effect affect ) the Corporal, who makes up the largest component of the NCM cadre?
9. Military engineers were called out to (diffuse defuse) a roadside bomb discovered at a check point outside of Kandahar.
diffuse
defuse