Wednesday, 2/3/99
Voocabulary Pretest:
  1. "What if I had a million dollars?" I _________(ed) to myself.
  2. The glider model flew a bit _________(ally), and had to be redesigned to fly straighter.
  3. The belly dancer ________(ed) her body up and down and back and forth.
  4. Because it has no atmosphere, the surface of the moon is very _________.
  5. At the turn of the century, in the U.S., there was much prejudice toward, and__________(ion) of Chinese-Americans.
  6. Those storm clouds look pretty _______; maybe you shouldn't go camping.
  7. Please don't ______ me as though I were a child; I can take care of myself.
  8. White Deer __________(ly) washed  his hands and face before dinner.
  9. Uncle is very __________ of Windrider's dream.
  10. She regularly ____________(s) that store; she buys all her clothes there.
  11. The crowd became _________ when it heard that the rock star was not going to show up.
  12. It gets rather _____________(ing) to see the same spelling mistakes over and over again.
  13. The writer's _________ must have left on vacation; he couldn't think of a single idea to write about.
  14. I had to dodge _________(ly) to avoid being hit by the pitch.
  15. Confucius thought that the word ___________  was the one word you could use to guide your life.
  16. He has a very loud and ______ voice that can be heard for a long distance.
  17. Hand Clap is very good at _________(ing) reality; much like Tom Sawyer.
  18. It would be very _________ of you to study for a big test.
  19. He was pulled over for ________ driving; they thought he was drunk.
  20. 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.