Quiz: "scoop" or "scope"?

The correct answer is: scope

"I’d like to call a meeting to discuss the scope of the project."

The scope is the extent of the area or subject matter that something deals with. It can also be the opportunity or ability to do or achieve something.

As the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen begins, hopes are high that the US will agree to binding targets to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions. The head of the UN climate-science network believes US President Obama is capable of raising the targets that are currently included in the legislation being debated in Congress. "There is scope for going above what is going to be legislated," Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said in an interview .

To scoop something is to pick it up or move it with a scoop. Informally, a scoop is a news story that a journalist hears before anybody else and is able to publish before it appears in other newspapers, TV or radio stations.

Try another:

Karen made a ______ to e-mail the San Diego office straight after the meeting.

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