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In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

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Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
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By the time it concluded with a sing-a-long of “XO,” Beyoncé had done the rare thing.
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In another year, stories about the strange new face of an A-list actress might draw chortles and cackles.
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Because Duck Dynasty receives monster TV ratings and Robertson paid by a company (A&E) while making these public statements.
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Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.
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Urinary sediments may be studied under three heads: A. Unorganized sediments.
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I knowed, a-course, that I could go kick up a fuss when Simpson stopped by his office on his trip back from Goldstone.
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