Spelling Test #16
(25) Spelling -- Do only the ones you missed on Monday's pretest.
  1. The voices joined in sweet harmony.
  2. Your attitude makes for a harmonies classroom.
  3. Did your pets adapt to your new house yet?
  4. The movie adaptation of The Outsiders was pretty lame.
  5. What was the inspiration for your essay?
  6. A great speech can inspire a crowd.
  7. Good students always try for excellence.
  8. Studying will help you excel in spelling.
  9. I hope it won't be an imposition on you to stay here.
  10. Don't impose on him by asking for money.
  11. Hair color is a genetic trait you inherit from your parents.
  12. Your eye color is determined by a gene
  13. The riding academy has students of all ages.
  14. The academic year ends in June.
  15. Those shoes come in a variety of colors.
  16. We used various kinds of fruit in the pies.
  17. We listened to a narrative of the tale.
  18. Ponyboy narrates his own story.
  19. A gentle smile revealed her kind disposition.
  20. Please dispose of your trash in the trash can.
  21. We triumphed over the opposing team.
  22. The song was most triumphant.
  23. Please combine these two sentences. Use the suffix "ing.
  24. Don't be a bonehead and tell people what your locker combination is.
  25. Everyone has a lot of admiration for the good deeds he has done.
(10) Vocabulary -- resilient, resilience, graft, poised, correlate, expendable,  infinitesimal, aurora, subtle
  1. infinitesimally "Crushing certain plants could add up ___________(ly). A little, tiny error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion."
  2. graft  "The government doesn’t like us here. We have to pay big _______ to keep our business."
  3. resilient  The green carpet of grass and moss was _________ and soft.
  4. poised  "It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too _______ and balanced for its ten tons."
  5. subtle "Maybe Time can’t be changed by us. Or maybe it can be changed only in __________, not so noticeable ways."
  6. Aurora  The display of colored lights in the sky that happens near the North Pole is called the _________ borealis.  (EC: It is more commonly known as the Northern Lights.)
  7. resilience  A good quality to have is _____-- the ability to bounce back when things go wrong.
  8. subtle  She tried to make _________ hints about her friend's bad breath.
  9. poised He was a very ________, very confident public speaker, he never got nervous in front of a crowd.
  10. poised He tried to be be very _______ and calm when he met his girlfriend's parents.
"A Sound of Thunder" (15)
  1. The theme of "ASOT" is probably... a) don't mess with time. b) don't try to change the past. c) small actions can lead to huge consequences. d) don't kill butterflies. e) all of the above.
  2. Eckels runs off the path because... a) he panics. b) he doesn't believe Travis. c) he doesn't care, d) it's fun. e) none of the above.
  3. After the dinosaur is dead, Travis: a)  threatens to leave Eckels behind, b) tells him to clean the mud off his shoes, c) goes and retrieves the bullets from the dinosaur, d) all of the above e) none of the above.
  4. When Travis sees the mud on Eckels' shoes he is worried about...a) the effects of Eckels' actions on history. b) money. c) the loss of the Time Safari business. d) the government. e) all of the above. f) none of the above.
  5. When Travis yells at Eckels' for leaving the Path, Eckels...a) offers to get the bullets out of the dinosaur. b) threatens Travis with a lawsuit. c) cries. d) offers graft to Travis. e) all of the above. f) none of the above.
  6. The first thing Eckels does when he sees the butterfly in the mud on his boot is... a) try to clean it up. b) check to see if it was really dead. c) throw the boot across the room. d) ask who won the election. e) none of the above.
  7. When they first return to the office, the first thing Eckels notices is...a) the weird spelling of the sign. b) something in the air. c) that the man behind the desk acted differently. d) a dog howling. e) a strange whistle.
  8. True or False: The man behind the desk thinks that the right man won the election.
  9. (2) Find a simile and a metaphor that describe the t-rex.
  10. (2) Tyrannosaurus is Latin for... TYRANT LIZARD
  11. (3) What are (at least) three things the phrase "a sound of thunder" represents? gun, dinosaur (its approach and fall), actions' in the past impact on history
Listening and Such. (10)
  1. What happened on July 4, 1776 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania? SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
  2. What does the term predestination mean? YOUR FATE HAS ALREADY BEEN DETERMINED IN ADVANCE.
  3. (3) Draw a bell curve that shows the relationship between the number of students and their grades.
  4. When is the Perfect Suggestion paper due? WED, 3/13
  5. (2) What does "refute opposition" mean? ANTICIPATE WHAT OPPONENTS MIGHT SAY AND OFFER
  6. atom : electron :: SOLAR SYSTEM : planet
  7. *sequence : combination :: personality : DISPOSITION
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