word game i got 6 and 12 wrong

Can you select the correct word in each sentence? (Watch out! The wording of each sentence is designed to throw you off.)

1. He committed a social (gaff, gaffe) when he asked the fisherman how much he paid for his long hook.

2. A player for the Florida Marlins told me the river was (teeming, teaming) with fish.

3. The Boy Scout invited the entire (troop, troupe) of actors to his home for dinner.

4. Don't tell anyone, but the jar shattered into several (discreet, discrete) pieces.

5. He taunted me because my figures didn't (gibe, jibe) with his at all.

6. The knight called the jester an (arrant, errant) knave.

7. He showed off his defiance by (flaunting, flouting) every rule.

8. He placed a picture of Mickey on his (mantel, mantle).

9. The (mucous, mucus) membrane was coated with a sticky secretion.

10. They (passed, past) the gas station a long time ago.

11. The scholar (pored, poured) over accounts of the enormous rainstorm.

12. I (racked, wracked) my brains trying to recall what destroyed the ship.

I will put the answers up later

until you are done anyhow.

1. gaffe. A gaffe is a blunder; a gaff is a large hook.

2. teeming. To teem means to abound; to team is to form a group.

3. troupe. A troupe is a group of actors; a troop is a group of soldiers or scouts.

4. discrete. Discrete means separate, individually distinct; discreet means prudent, modest, and unobtrusive.

5. jibe. Jibe means to be in accord with, agree; gibe means to tease or taunt.

6. arrant. Arrant means complete, total (in a negative sense); errant means traveling or straying.

7. flouting. Flout means to treat with contemptuous disregard, scoff; flaunt means to display ostentatiously or to show off.

8. mantel. A mantel is a shelf or support above a fireplace; a mantle is a cloak or cover.

9. mucous. The adjective "mucous" means related to mucus or secreting mucus; the noun "mucus" means the slippery secretion itself.

10. passed. To pass is to move or to go by; past means a time gone by.

11. pored. To pore over something is to read or examine it intently; to pour is to dispense a substance from a container.

12. rack. To rack is to torture, cause suffering; to wrack is to ruin completely.