Pretest #12
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A bright flaime burned
in the campfire.
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Keep flammeble fabrics
away from heat.
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Use a match to ignite
the wood.
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A car needs fuel for the ignetion
to work.
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Gold was discovered at this presise
spot.
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A jewel must be cut with careful precision.
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Is a metre longer than
a yard?
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The meteric system is
one way of measuring.
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This micrascope magnifies
the smallest items.
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This bug is so tiny it is almost micrascopic.
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I knew it was serious by his grave
look.
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The gravety of the problem
had us worried.
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I am gratefull for your
help with my report.
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He showed his gratetude
by giving me a gift.
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She will revize her essay
to make it shorter.
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This revison will improve
your story.
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Our best athalete plays
football and baseball.
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Exercise often if you want an atheletic
body.
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Our town humaine society
cares for stray cats.
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All humanidy will benefit
from the new drug.
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One scoop of ice cream will be sufficient
for desert.
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One scoop of ice cream will suffise.
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A lack of practice will impede
your progress.
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A lack of practice will be an impedement.
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I heard the boom of the explotion.
Vocabulary: Definition, POS, fill
in blanks. Due Wednesday.
pungent, splendid, peruse, circuitous,
emanate, gaunt, steep, dilapidated, squalor, destitute
As I took a long and (1) ______________
route home from school (I just wanted to see some new sights), I noticed
the (2)___________ smell of liver and onions (3)______________(ing)
from an old, (4)_____________ house that looked ready to fall down. Obviously
the people inside were poor--actually, completely (5)______________ --to
be living in such depressing (6)____________. But, even though I usually
hate liver and onions, the smells coming from this ramshackle house
were (7)___________.
(8) Before you begin a test, always _________ the directions
from beginning to end.
(9) The old man was so ___________
you could see his bones through his skin.
(10) Since he spent his whole life
being ________(ed) in the culture of France, he seemed more French than
American.