Spelling Pretest #7: As always, look for extra credit mistakes to find and fix. Do what #17 says.
  1. The police will investagate the accident.
  2. Careful investagaton will reveal the answer.
  3. Can you detect the smell of burning wood?
  4. Wolves walk softly to escape detection.
  5. You will have consaquences if you vialate the rules.
  6. Speeding is a traffic violation.
  7. I will exibit my sheep at the county fair.
  8. The school has an exabition of student art.
  9. Were you trained to opperate this machine?
  10. I need the opperation to fix my injured knee.
  11. Use a copy machine to duplacate the form.
  12. I ordered a duplacation of that photo for you.
  13. The coach will evaluate your hockey skills.
  14. Be sure to turn in the evalation sheet with your final draft.
  15. Let everyone partisapate in the discussion.
  16. We need your partisipation in the discussion.
  17. Please copy and puncuate this sentence said Mr. Coward
  18. Commas and periods are puncuation marks.
  19. Let's congradulate the winners of the spelling bee.
  20. I will send my congradalations to the happy couple.
  21. If you conect the dots, you will make a doggy.
  22. When you read, try to make a connection to your own life.
  23. If everyone coperates, we can get done faster.
  24. This will take everyones coperation.
  25. If you beggin with action, the reader will want to read more.
  26. The best place to start a story is not always the begginning.
  27. Where is the best place to situate the house?
  28. It was a desperate situation.
Vocabulary: Defintion, POS, new sentence--in notebook--due Wednesday.
bona fide, circumvent, prolific, diligent, audacious, subtle, incognito, deduce, diffident
  1. She was rather __________ at the party, too shy to talk to anyone.
  2. Dally is one of those people who like to ___________ the rules.
  3. When Pony and Johnny cut their hair, they were trying to go _____________.
  4. The author Ray Bradbury is a very __________ writer, writing at least a thousand words per day.
  5. He tried to be very __________ as he cheated, so that the teacher wouldn't see.
  6. Pony and Johnny are __________  heroes; they're the real deal.
  7. The detective ___________(ed) the criminal's identity from the clues he left behind.
  8. If you are __________ about your homework, you will do well.
  9. He ____________(ly) cussed in front of Mr. Anderson.