Pretest #03
In your notebook, write the correct spelling of
each boldfaced, underlined word. Some are already correct, most are not.
Also be on the lookout for any other mechanical mistakes to fix for extra
credit.
1. Is the unaverse endless?
2. A bilion of anything is almost impossable
to imagine.
3. I can see almost a mile with my binoculers.
4. One leg of the camera tripod is bent.
5. Each snowflake is younique.
6. Please sing this song in unason.
7. Dan can do a tripel flip.
8. We sat in a semicircle around the fire.
9. Fold each strip into the shape of a triangle.
10. Both tires on his bycicle were flat.
11. How can we unafy the different groups?
12. The tripletts often wear matching clothes.
13. Use a semicollon to connect parts of
a sentence that could be sentences on their own.
14. Swimmers have strong biseps and upper
arms.
15. We have six bimonthly art classes a
year.
16. The thirteen colonies pleged their unaty.
17. A treo of clowns ran around the ring.
18. My Mom is a student at the unavercity.
19. Our bianual meetings are in spring
and fall.
20. Will our team be playing in the semifinals?
21. Please obzerve what happens next in
the expariment.
22. What jigantic bean stalk!
23. The bus will exsplode if it goes less
than 50 miles per hour.
24. The leader tried to unite the warring
tribes.
25. California has more bilingal people
than most states.
uni = ________ bi = _________ tri = __________ semi
= ____________
Vocabulary: First, look
up the words below, and write the definition and the part-of-speech (POS)
for each in your notebook. Then fill in the blanks below with the correct
words. Then write a new sentence (in your notebook) of your own using each
word.
elude, ironic, credible, incredulous, credulous,
facade, premonition, bootleg
1. I tried to act cheerful, but it was just a ________.
I was really depressed inside.
2. Pony had a __________ that something bad might happen
in the old church.
3. The criminal ran through the alley to __________ the
police.
4. Cherry was ___________ that Dally tried to bring her
a Coke. She couldn’t believe it!
5. My mom didn’t think my excuse was ____________. She
didn’t believe a word of it.
6. His friend gave him a ___________ copy of the video
game.
7. It was ____________ that the police station was robbed.
8. The ___________ kid from the country was an easy target
for the savvy con-man from New York.
9. Latin root: cred = ____________