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To pay the consequences for self-indulgent behavior: “If you stay up late at night to watch TV, in the morning you will have to pay the piper.”

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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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Now, on my first day here, you pay me back for what I did then—as if it needed paying back!
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“We shall make Mr. Pickwick pay for peeping,” said Fogg, with considerable native humour, as he unfolded his papers.
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Condillac after the marquis's death had refused to pay tithes to Mother Church and has flouted and insulted the Bishop.
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pay the piper

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