Wednesday, 2/10/99
Vocabulary Pretest
1. Robin looked (fastidiously,
wistfully, unruly, smugly) up as the glider drifted away. "But we have
no glider now!"
2. If you were to diagram the electronics
of a car, the (methodical, schematic, tunic, muse) would fill the
room.
3. A lack of studying will lead
to a(n) (insolent, impulsive, inept, improbable) performance on
the test.
4. Moon Shadow thinks that Robin
is a(n) (luminous, embroider, sullen, incessant) talker who monopolizes
every conversation.
5. "That test was easy!" he said
(smugly, unruly, forlornly, schematically) in that annoying way
of his.
6. After he saved the kids from
the fire he was (venerable, flourished, protruded, venerated) by
the whole town.
7. Jean is very (forlorn, fastidious,
inept, wistful) about her silverware; she won’t eat in the cafeteria
because she thinks the forks aren’t clean enough.
8. It was on a(n) (cleaver,
impulse, inept, venerable) that we decided to go to the movies instead
of the restaurant.
9. We ran out of the ingreedients
for the resipe, so we had to (improvise, patronize, undulate, venerate).
10. In shop class you use sheet
metal for your projects because it is relatively (wistful, impulsive,
malleable, smug) and easy to shape and bend.
11. With a(n) (queue, flourish,
undulation, impulse), Vanna turned the letters.
12. Uncle is a very proud, (sullen,
inept, translucent, haughty) man who demands respect.
13. Before the earthquake, MS has
a(n) (unruly, ominous, methodical, wizened) feeling that everything
would come crashing down.
14. We call this kind of feeling
a(n) (simper, methodical, foreshadow, premonition).
15. The lost little girl looked
so (unruly, ominous, forlorn, wizened) as she looked for her mommy.
EC1: Change venerate (v)
into an adjective.
EC2: Change improvise (v) into
a noun.
Earthquake Video (quiz on video/Chapter
9 Friday!)