Thursday, 2/18/99
Vocabulary Pretest
Rubric Practice
1.  After the explosion, most people had (auspicious, incredulous, haughty, adverse) looks on their faces; like they couldn’t believe what happened.
2. Which is an antonym for "good fortune"? (inept, incredulous, adversity, undulation)
3. Which is a synonym for clever? (deity, perpetual, sardonic, shrewd)
4. Many people for many years have tried to create a(n) (auspicious, incensed, perpetual, sardonic) motion machine that will run forever.
5. He had a(n) (incredulous, auspicious, sullen, cleaver) begining to the new semester; he got four A’s and only one B on his first round of tests.
6. Sometimes Uncle is a (perpetual, malleable, querulous, incessant) old man who is rarely satisfied.
7. "Yeah, sure. That'll work. Not." I said very (perpetually, sardonically, ineptly, transparently).
8. It was quite a(n) (undulation, revelation, persecution, exasperation) when Tom revealed the treasure to the surprised town.
9. My dad was (sardonic, incensed, perpetual, shrewd) when I crashed the car into a tree.
10. Try not to be too (forlorn, perpetual, venerable, credulous) when you hear rumors; most turn out to be false.
11. Please go home and (improvise, venerate, attire, undulate) yourself proper. Those cloths are not acceptable.
12.  Which doesn’t fit and why? (deity, revelation, improvise, adversity, exasperation)
13. After the earthquake many of the rich who were once (impulsive,
haughty, forlorn, wistful) were now humbled and looking for crusts of bread like everyone else.
14. After he saved the kids from the fire he was (venerable, flourished,
protruded, venerated) by the whole town.
15. a)Change child (n) into an adjective by adding a suffix. b)Change idiot (n) into an adjective by adding a suffix. c)Change revelation (n) back into the verb it is based upon.
EC: Change perpetual (adj) into a verb.
EC2: Change adversity (n) into a different noun by changing the suffix.