Wednesday, 2/3/99
Voocabulary Pretest:
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"What if I had a million dollars?" I _________(ed) to myself.
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The glider model flew a bit _________(ally), and had to be
redesigned to fly straighter.
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The belly dancer ________(ed) her body up and down and back
and forth.
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Because it has no atmosphere, the surface of the moon is
very _________.
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At the turn of the century, in the U.S., there was much prejudice
toward, and__________(ion) of Chinese-Americans.
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Those storm clouds look pretty _______; maybe you shouldn't
go camping.
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Please don't ______ me as though I were a child; I can take
care of myself.
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White Deer __________(ly) washed his hands and face
before dinner.
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Uncle is very __________ of Windrider's dream.
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She regularly ____________(s) that store; she buys all her
clothes there.
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The crowd became _________ when it heard that the rock star
was not going to show up.
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It gets rather _____________(ing) to see the same spelling
mistakes over and over again.
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The writer's _________ must have left on vacation; he couldn't
think of a single idea to write about.
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I had to dodge _________(ly) to avoid being hit by the pitch.
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Confucius thought that the word ___________ was the
one word you could use to guide your life.
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He has a very loud and ______ voice that can be heard for
a long distance.
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Hand Clap is very good at _________(ing) reality; much like
Tom Sawyer.
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It would be very _________ of you to study for a big test.
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He was pulled over for ________ driving; they thought he
was drunk.
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If you water and care for your garden, it will ___________.
nimble, erratic, reciprocate, improbable, skeptical,
muse, undulate, fastidious, unruly, patronize, ominous, persecute, embroider,
exasperate, desolate, binge, flourish, prudent, resonant, sullen
EXTRA CREDIT:
A) Use the word incite in a sentence. B)
Change skeptical (adj) into a noun. C) Change desolate
(adj) into a noun. D) Change exasperate (v) into a noun.
E) Change undulate (v) into a noun.