Frequently Misspelled Words 19

Ten frequently misspelled words round out this quiz, each one cued by a simpler term.

You could see periodical, playful, or picky and need to spell the word that matches.

A helpful one is conscience, which hides the whole word science inside it. Spotting that buried word makes the back half easy to get right, and it neatly separates conscience from the similar-looking conscious. Holding the two apart in your mind keeps you from mixing up where each one ends, since the two look almost identical at the start.

Recommended level: intermediate.