Thursday 1/6/00
Brain Teaser Warm Up:
A) What question can a person ask all day long, always
get completely different answers, and yet all the answers could be correct?
B) Is it possible to name the capital of each and every
one of the United States in less than a minute?
C) What does this spell: ghoughteightteeau?
Vocabulary Pretest
1. My brother was very ________; he kept bugging my mom
until she said yes.
2. I stood watching; _________ by the beauty of
the stars.
3. Often, immagrants are used as _________(s) for the
problems of society.
4. A caterpillar undergoes a ____________, and emerges
from it's coccoon as a butterfly.
5. I got very ______(ed) before my big performance and
made some silly mistakes.
6. Joe has a(n) ___________ where he make his bed just
before he gets into it.
7. I was amazed by the _______ that he was really an
alien!
8. Joe voiced his __________; he didn't think it was
a good idea to go further into the woods.
9. Joe suffered from _________, and usually was awake
almost all night long.
10. Everyone __________(ed) to the plan; no one disagreed.
idiosyncrasy, assent, dissent,
metamorphosis,
insomnia, scapegoat, revelation,
fluster, transfixed, persistent
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