Spelling Pretest #15
1. He was promoted to cheaf of the department.
2. He is a citasen of the United States.
3. It isn’t polite to listen to another persons convarsation.
4. Are those two lines paralell?
5. At least have the desency to apologize when your in the wrong.
6. What a dalisious dinner!
7. Do not desert the team just when we need you the most.
8. In algabra, the letter x is called a veriable, because it's value can change.
9. What is pi times the diametere of a circle?
10.You need both your parent's conscent to go on this trip.
11. I don’t want to disscurrage you from trying out for the team.
12. That is a relatively mild daseaze you should be well soon.
13. It is doutfull you’ll pass without doing KBAR.
14. Next year (most of) you will be in the 8th grade.
15. Last year we went on an African sefarri.
16. Take a deep breadth and hold it.
17. She is very fastidious, very particuliar, about her food.
18. What is your estamate for the answer.
19. The millionaire spared no expence in building his mansion.
20. Please do not exsceed the posted speed limit.
21. He has a very mellow, very even temprament; it is very hard to ruffle him.
22. Uncle was very skeptikal of Fathers dream.
23. The President always travels with a very large entourage. More that 700 people traveled with him in Africa.
24. She finds french fries irresistable.
25. More adults than you may think are functionally ilitarate.

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Extra Credit:
A) What is the answer to #9?
B) What verb is #8 based on?
C) Which of the above words are being used as verbs? (3)
D) Find and fix any errors you see. There are several missing pieces of punctuation.

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Vocabulary:
scrutinize, assuage, rue, connotation/denotation (example), dignity, allay