Spelling Test #15 (50 points + 10 for Wednesday)
1. He was promoted to cheif of the department.
2. He is a citisen of the United States.
3. It isn’t polite to listen to another person's convarsation.
4. Are those two lines parellel?
5. At least have the desency to apolagize when you're in the wrong.
6. What a delisious dinner!
7. Do not dessert the team just when we need you the most.
8. In algebra, the letter x is called a veriable, because its value can change.
9. The radius is what percentage of the diametre of a circle? (EC)
10.You need both your parents' 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 breathe and hold it.
17. She is very fastidious--very particuliar--about her food.
18. What is your estamate for the answer?
19. The milionaire spared no expence in building his mansion.
20. Please do not exceed the posted speed limit.
21. He has a very mellow, very even temprament; it is very hard to ruffle him.
22. Uncle was very skeptickal of Fathers dream.
23. The President always travels with a very large entourage. More than 700 people travelled with him in Africa.
24. She finds French Fries irresistable.
25. More adults than you may think are functionally illitarate.

1. scold : chide :: shriveled : ___________
2. My parents found my excuses very ____________ and lame.
3. I got very ____________(ed) with my dog while I was trying to teach him to fetch.
4. With the sun shining on it, the stained glass became very _____________.
5. (2) Joanie __________(ed) angrily out of the room, _____________(ing) her arms and yelling.
6. The sound of the bell ____________(ed) through the empty halls.
7. skeptical : optimistic :: malicious : __________
8. dark : luminous :: plain : ___________(ed)
9. He was the king's _______(ing) fool.

flounce, simper, wizened, benevolent, flail, embroider, improbable, resonate, luminous, exasperate

1. (1) The waves came in succession and I was pummeled before I got outside.
2. (1) The artist showed me how to obtain a flesh color simply mix white, yellow and a little red.
3. (6-copy) Look at this boy he said in exasperation he eat enough for four pigs.
4. (2) But this boy was not a friendly boy, he was a nasty mean boy.

A) In MS's opinion, what was wrong with Miss Whitlaw's stained glass?
B) Why does MS think that Miss Whitlaw might have been royalty in a previous life?
C) "We travel all the way around the world with it and yet never leave our parlor." What is Miss Whitlaw talking about?
D) Why does WR say that MS's mother was always polite to everyone?
E) What is one of the similes that MS uses to describe Robin.