Test #12 Be sure to: a) Use a separate sheet of paper, b) include heading and title, c) record any extra credit you may have earned this week--1/7 -1/10--cross off 5, the max is 10, d) record your scores on the quiz--   /17 on 1/10, and e) record your vocabulary homework score ( /10, +5 for sentences).

1. A bright flame burned in the campfire.
2. Keep flammable fabrics away from heat.
3. Use a match to ignite the wood.
4. A car needs fuel for the ignition to work.
5. Gold was discovered at this precise spot.
6. A jewel must be cut with careful precision.
7. Is a meter longer than a yard?
8. The metric system is one way of measuring.
9. This microscope magnifies the smallest items.
10. This bug is so tiny it is almost microscopic.
11. I knew it was serious by his grave look.
12. The gravity of the problem had us worried.
13. I am grateful for your help with my report.
14. He showed his gratitude by giving me a gift.
15. She will revise her essay to make it shorter.
16. This revision will improve your story.
17. Our best athlete plays football and baseball.
18. Exercise often if you want an atheletic body.
19. Our town humane society cares for stray cats.
20. All humanity will benefit from the new drug.
21. One scoop of ice cream will be sufficient for dessert.
22. One scoop of ice cream will suffice.
23. A lack of practice will impede your progress.
24. A lack of practice will be an impediment.
25. I heard the boom of the explosion.

(10) Vocabulary.

1. Before you sign anything, be sure to peruse it very carefully.
2. Even though he was so gaunt that it looked like he hadn't eaten in weeks, he still had a menacing attitude that made him seem like a very formidable adversary.
3. For best results, steep your tea bag for at least five minutes.
4.  "…He told me his name was Jefferson Johnson Stone, and I was awed by the splendor of the name...
5. (2) ...coming from someone so steeped in, and surrounded by,  squalor and poverty...
6. (2) With a name like that, he should own the world and stride the streets like a king," and not have a family who is destitute and living in a dilapidated old house.
7. The pungent smell of onions filled the house.
8. Robert, trying to hide his friendship with Jeff, always took a circuitous route...