blunder vs error

You will make a terrible … in introducing her to your parents.

(a) blunder
(b) slip
© error
(d) defect

The answer is listed as “blunder”: however, I would say that correct answer is “error”.

According to the Visual Thesaurus: Error also means a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.

Both “blunder” and “error” would be correct in that sentence.

Interesting that the BNC gives 4 per 1 million words for “terrible blunder” and for “terrible error”.

I agree with Jamie, either word is fine there.

So, this page is wrong:

diendan.dethi.com/archive/index.php/t-2046.html

Hi, LLewellyn

I guess the test creator made a terrible error (or blunder) while compiling the test :wink:

Doesn’t ‘terrible mistake’ sound more natural?

Yes.

I agree that ‘terrible mistake’ would be a much more commonly used collocation.
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It would:

TERRIBLE MISTAKE 322
TERRIBLE BLUNDER 7
TERRIBLE ERROR 4

americancorpus.org/

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Not quite sure why you included search results for ‘terrible burden’. Did you mean to write/search for ‘terrible blunder’?
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Terrible burden ??? :shock: What burdens you, Molly ? :wink:

I was listening to Eric Burden at that mo’. :lol:

My as*. :stuck_out_tongue:

As for me, I wonder whether that site has become partners with this site. :lol:
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