B.Com Part 1 Functional English Pair of Words

Pair of Words

1	He is an ---------- teacher.	Able	Capable
2	He ---------- from smoking all his life.	Abstain	Refrain
3	He did not ---------- to my request.	Accede	Concede
4	He is proud of his ---------- to the education minister.	Access	Excess
5	He has ---------- western ways of life.	Adopt, Adept	Adapt
6	He is ---------- to my ideas	Averse	Adverse
7	He will be useful ---------- to the staff of the college.	Addition	Edition
8	I ---------- that he is honest.	Confess	Admit
9	He acted upon his father’s ----------.	Advice	Advise
10	Parents have great ---------- for their children.	Affection	Affectation
11	Fresh ---------- is good for health.	Air	Heir
12	---------- of childhood  do not last long.	Allusion	Illusion
13	We should ---------- our plans	Alter	Altar
14	You are to do this word; there is no ----------.	Alternate	Alternative
15	He is ---------- and is liked by all.	Amiable	Amicable
16	There is an ---------- job for you.	Apposite,	Opposite
17	He asked an ---------- to paint his picture	Artist	Artiste
18	His ---------- is teaching.	Avocation, vocation	Vacation
19	We put our ----------papers in the box	Ballet	Ballot
20	The land is ----------.	Baron	Barren
21	The children were playing on the ----------.	Beach	Beech
22	Sugar is made from ---------- also.	Beat	Beet
23	Our teacher is very ----------. And we like him.	Beneficent	Beneficial
24	I reserved a ---------- in the Pakistan Mail.	Birth	Berth
25	There is a park ---------- our house.	Beside	Besides
26	You should not go out in the sun ---------- headed.	Bare	Bear
27	He was ---------- with a silver spoon in his mouth.	Born	Bear
28	I killed a wild ---------- yesterday.	Bore	Boar
29	The Muslims ---------- before Allah.	Bow	Bough
30	He tried very hard bout could not ---------- the door.	Break	Brake
31	Her ---------- dress was worth seeing.	Bridal	Bridle
32	He works in a ---------- factory	Calendar	Calendar
33	His behavior is against all ---------- of morality.	Canon	Cannon
34	These shoes are made of ----------.	Canvas	Canvass
35	---------- it is useless to cast pearls before swine.	Caste	Cast
36	This room has a tin ----------.	Ceiling	Roof
37	This rice mill has ---------- working.	Cease	Seize
38	He was shut up in a narrow ----------.	Sell	Cell
39	This statue has perfect ----------.
40	He was wearing a ---------- dress.	Ceremonious	Ceremonial
41	We could not ---------- him from doing so.	Check	Cheque
42	I am fed up with his ---------- talk.	Childish	Childlike
43	He ---------- many examples to prove his point.	Cite	Site
44	His eye ---------- is weak.	Sight	Site
45	The ---------- truck nine.	Cloak	Clock
46	We bought some ---------- from the market.	Cloth	Clothes
47	Too many ---------- spoil the broth.	Cook	Cock
48	The law must take its ----------.	Course	Coarse
49	You have omitted a ---------- here; please put it new.	Comma	Coma
50	This is very ---------- in our society.	Common	Mutual
51	Please pay my ---------- to your father.	Compliment	Complement
52	I am ---------- of my success.	Confident	Confidant
53	His ---------- presence is necessary.	Continual	Continuous
54	He was given ---------- punishment.	Corporeal	Corporal
55	Two to three divisions of army make one ----------.	Corps	Corpse
56	The college ---------- is the highest body here.	Counsel	Council
57	It was not a ---------- statement.	Credible	Credulous
58	He got the ---------- and acted accordingly.	Cue	Queue
59	He was ---------- of malaria.	Heal	Cure
60	Every country has its ----------.	Habit	Custom
61	He is very ---------- to me.	Dear	Deer
62	I have bought this butter from ----------.	Diary	Dairy
63	The body of the ---------- was sent to his village	Deceased	Diseased
64	I ---------- with you on this matter.	Differ	Defer
65	Graham bell ---------- telephone.	Discover	Invent
66	He had many ---------- to look after.	Dependent	Dependant
67	He is wearing a ---------- suit.	Dissent/decent	Descent
68	He is trying to ---------- a machine for the sowing of rice.	Devise	Device
69	Give the devil his ----------.	Dew	Due
70	The old man is about to ----------.	Dye	Die
71	The doctor gave him three ---------- of medicine.	Doze	Dose
72	He took a ---------- of cool water.	Draft/Draught	Drought
73	The flowers ---------- for want of water.	Droop	Drop
74	The days of fighting a ---------- are over.	Duel	Dual
75	The ---------- condition of Pakistan is improving.	Economic	Economical
76	His voice was hardly ----------.	Audible	Edible
77	You are ---------- for this post.	Illegible	Eligible
78	My car is ---------- than that of yours.	Elder	Older
79	Many English ---------- have settled in Australia.	Emigrant	Immigrant
80	Iqbal was an ---------- poet.	Imminent	Eminent
81	He belongs to an ---------- family.	Imperial	Imperious
82	The British ---------- was the largest of all.	Umpire	Empire
83	His health is ----------.	Envious	Enviable
84	He gave me a ---------- to post	Envelop	Envelope
85	There are many ---------- among the students.	Faction	Fiction
86	The railway ---------- have increased	Fair	Fare
87	He is a ---------- thief.	Famous	Notorious
88	He did my work with great ----------.	Facility	Felicity
89	The juggler showed many ----------.	Feet	Feat
90	We sat on the brick ----------.	Flour	Floor
91	Gentlemen do not use ---------- language.	Foul	Fowl
92	She is wearing a ---------- dress.	Funeral	Funereal
93	No ---------- action is necessary in this matter.	Further	Farther
94	He walks with an awkward ----------.	Gait	Gate
95	He ---------- away all his money.	Gambol	Gamble
96	The thief was sent to ----------.	Goal	Gaol
97	He is ---------- and noble.	Genteel	Gentle
98	There is a ---------- watch.	Gild	Guild
99	God is ----------.	Graceful	Gracious
100	Coal are burning in the ----------.	Grate	Great
101	Her ---------- are brown.	Hair	Hare
102	He ---------- his shirt on the peg.	Hang	Hung
103	He was caught in a ---------- storm.	Hail	Hale
104	Your wound will ---------- very soon.	Heal	Heel
105	I ---------- a noise.	Herd	Heard
106	The rainbow has many ----------.	Hue	Hew
107	The Prime Minister made a ---------- speech.	Historical	Historic
108	Only the enemies of people ---------- grain.	Hoard	Horde
109	To err is ----------.	Humane	Human
110	---------- falls on the mountains in winter.	Snow	Ice
111	Do not waste your time by remaining ----------.	Idle	Ideal
112	He has an ---------- mind.	Imaginative	Imaginary
113	Napoleon said that nothing was ---------- in the world.	Impassable	Impossible
114	Pakistan is making great progress ---------- field.	Industrial	Industrious
115	He found an ---------- way to save himself.	Ingenuous	ingenious
116	He gave ---------- advice.	Judicious	Judicial
117	Of riches and health, the ---------- is mare valuable.	Later	Latter
118	He got much with ---------- effort.	Less	Fewer
119	By profession, he is a ----------.	Liar	Lawyer
120	The teacher told the boys to revise the ----------.	Lessen	Lesson
121	If you lose your honor, you ---------- everything.	Lose	Loose
122	He saw a ---------- scene.	Lovely	Loveable
123	He is a rich man and lives a ---------- life.	Luxuriant	Luxurious
124	Is the teacher is ---------- or not?	Male	Mail
125	Write down the ---------- I of this poem.	Mane	Main
126	Ahmed will ---------- Farzana.	Marry	Merry
127	He sells ----------.	Meat	Meet
128	He stood first in B.A. and won gold ----------.	Medal	Meddle
129	Iron is a useful ----------.	Mettle	Metal
130	I have made some ---------- changes in this easy.	Minor	Miner
131	He has a good ---------- character.	Moral	Morale
132	The bundles of thread are ----------.	Naughty	Knotty
133	He is a Government ----------.	Official	Officious
134	The workers were digging an ----------.	Oar	Ore
135	There was something ---------- for which he called me.	Ought	Aught
136	He was looking ---------- with fear.	Pale	Pail
137	She ---------- the apple.	Pair/Pear	Pare
138	He is on ---------- duty these days.	Patrol	Petrol
139	Our principle is the ---------- of college magazine.	Patron	Pattern
140	We want ---------- in the world.	Pace	Piece
141	I will follow my ----------.	Plan	Pain
142	Lahore is a ---------- city.	Popular/Populace	Populous
143	It never rains but ----------.	Pour	Pore
144	Your plans are not ----------.	Practice	Practical
145	He went to the mosque to ----------.	Pray	Prey
146	Our ---------- is on leave.	Principle	Principle
147	Who is the last ---------- of God?	Prophet	Profit
148	I have to leave but you may ----------.	Proceed	Precede
149	He kept ---------- for a long time.	Quite	Quiet
150	It ---------- here in summer	Rain/Rein	Reign
151	He is a ----------citizen.	Respectable	Respectful
152	Your answer is not ----------.	Rite	Right
153	The bell is ----------.	Ring	Wring
154	The teacher took the ---------- call.	Roll	Role
155	The bus driver lost his ---------- permit.	Root	Route
156	This house is for ----------.	Sail	Sale
157	He is very ---------- to heat and cold.	Sensitive	Sensible
158	She does not know how to ---------- a shirt.	Sew	Sow
159	When can I ---------- you?	Sea	See
160	His is very ---------- about his defeat.	Sore/Soar	Sour
161	He is a ---------- worker, and helps the needy.	Social	Sociable
162	I have on e winter ---------- only.	Soot/Suit	Suite
163	He put his heart and ---------- into the work.	Sole	Soul
164	It is a ---------- argument	Spacious	Specious
165	He went to the ---------- shop.	Stationery	Stationary
166	I live in the upper ---------- of the house.	Story	Storey
167	This road leads ---------- to our college.	Straight	Strait
168	The river ---------- with fish.	Teem	Team
169	A ruler has ---------- power.	Temporal	Temporary
170	The ---------- of this post is three years.	Tenor	Tenure
171	He is polished and ---------- man.	Urban	Urbane
172	He tired hard but in ----------.	Vein	Vain
173	The world is a ---------- of tears.	Vale	Veil
174	---------- is unlawful in Islam.	Wine	Vine
175	We should not ---------- the time of our friends.	Waste	Waist
176	The condition of age had been ---------- for this job.	Waive	Wave
177	He has become ---------- because of illness.	Weak	Week
178	I do not know ---------- he will come or not.	Whether	Weather
179	The mountain tops were ---------- in mist.	Wreath	Wreathe
180	The ---------- of egg is rich in food value.	Yolk	Yoke