Pretest #16-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. The voices joined in sweet harmuny.
2. Your attitude makes for a harmonius classroom.
3. Did your pets adapt to your new house yet?
4. The movie adaption of  The Outsiders was pretty lame.
5. What was the insparation for your essay?
6. A great speech can inspire a crowd.
7. Good students always try for excelence.
8. Studying will help you excell 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 jenetic trait you inherit from your parents.
12. Your eye color is determined by a jean.
13. The riding acadamy has students of all ages.
14. The acedemic year ends in June.
15. Those shoes come in a variaty of colors.
16. We used various kinds of fruit in the pies.
17. We listened to a narative of the tail.
18. Ponyboy narates his own story.
19. A gentle smile revealed her kind disposition.
20. Please dipose of your trash in the trash can.
21. We triumphed over the opposing team.
22. The song was most triumphent.
23. Please cumbine these two sentences. Use the suffix "ing."
24. Don't be a bonehead and tell people what your locker combonation is.
25. Everyone has a lot of admaration for the good deeds he has done.

Vocabulary--resilience, graft (2), poised (adj), correlate, expendable,  infinitesimal, aurora, primeval, paradox, annihilate

1. The policeman refused the gangster's offer of __________ to "look the other way."
2. After his accident in the fire, he needed skin ____________(s) because of the severity of his burns.
3. Because of a trick of the light, his head seemed to have a bright orange __________ emanating from it.
4. To us the world seems so huge, but it is merely a(n) _________ speck in the gigantic universe.
5. The aardvark _____________(ed) the anthill.
6. The rain forest looked like the   __________ jungle of long ago.
7. The French expression, "The more things change, the more they stay the same" is an example of a ____________.
8. "And the caveman, please note, is not just any __________ man, no! He is an entire future nation."
9. Kids who develop the quality of ____________ are able to cope when things go bad.
10. He was a very __________, very confident public speaker, he never got nervous in front of a crowd.
11. "Then I __________ our arrival in the Past so that we meet the monster not more than two minutes before he would have died anyway."