Similar-sounding words: Do you have “flair” or “flare”?

When you’re enjoying the great outdoors, do you get attacked by a hoard or horde of mosquitoes? Similar-sounding words are often confused. See if you can choose the correct word in each example below. It’s not as easy as it sounds!

1. This Placeholder for the answer event will have a significant impact on international relations.
2. Spring comes with Placeholder for the answer rain showers.
3. As we hiked the Trans Canada Trail, a Placeholder for the answer of mosquitoes swarmed us.
4. I was Placeholder for the answer to hand over the antique stained glass lamp: I felt it belonged to the house.
5. A Placeholder for the answer bike can help you get a good cardio workout.
6. Once this last set of changes is approved, the report will finally be in its Placeholder for the answer form.
7. Bell-bottoms are pants with a Placeholder for the answer below the knee.
8. Table salt is Placeholder for the answer of sodium and chloride ions.
9. We are studying other options Placeholder for the answer this one.
10. “Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing” is a famous Placeholder for the answer by author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
  
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