Spellling Test #16--Use a separate sheet. Be sure to record: a) your vocabulary homework score ( /25), your kbar score (/40), and  c)  any extra credit you may have earned during the week (+4min/+10 max).  If you do not have your crossword, write "xw -10."  As always, look for mistakes to fix for more extra credit.  If you are exempt from vocabulary, write "exempt" and do only # 14 and #15.
(25) Spelling -- Do only the ones you missed on Monday's pretest.
  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 excellance.
  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 genatic trait you inharit from your parents.
  12. Your eye color is determined by a gean.
  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 narretive of the tale.
  18. Ponyboy narates his own story.
  19. A gentle smile revealed her kind disposion.
  20. Please dispose of your trash in the trash can.
  21. We triumphed over the opossing team.
  22. The song was most triumphent.
  23. Please combine these two sentences. Use the suffix "ing.
  24. Don't be a bonehead and tell people what your locker combanation is.
  25. Everyone has a lot of admaration for the good deeds he has done.
(15) Vocabulary.
If you are exempt from vocabulary, write "exempt" and do only # 14 and #15.
resilient, resilience, graft, poised, correlate, expendable,  infinitesimal, aurora, ambiguous, annihilate, primeval, paradox
  1. "Crushing certain plants could add up ___________(ly). A little, tiny error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion."
  2. "The government doesn’t like us here. We have to pay big _______ to keep our business."
  3. The green carpet of grass and moss was _________ and soft.
  4. "It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too ________ and balanced for its ten tons."
  5. "That'd be a ________. Time doesn't permit that sort of mess -- a man meeting himself."
  6. The display of colored lights in the sky that happens near the North Pole is called the _________ borealis.
  7. The rain forest looked like the   __________ jungle of long ago.
  8. A good quality to have is _____-- the ability to bounce back when things go wrong.
  9. "With a stamp of your foot, you __________ first one, then a dozen...a billion possible mice."
  10. Warm Up #4 on Monday was a(n) __________ question. There could be many ways to interpret it.
  11. He tried to be be very _______ and calm when he met his girlfriend's parents.
  12. "Then I __________ our arrival in the Past so that we meet the monster not more than two minutes before he would have died anyway."
  13. Mom's ___________ answer to my question didn't really answer my question.
  14. Give an example of a paradox.
  15. "Eckels turned slowly to regard the _______ garbage dump, that hill of nightmare and terror."
resilient, resilience, graft, poised, correlate, expendable,  infinitesimal, aurora, ambiguous, annihilate, primeval, paradox

"A Sound of Thunder" (15)

  1. The theme of "ASOT" is probably... a) don't mess with time. b) follow directions. 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...
  11. (3) What are (at least) three things the phrase "a sound of thunder" represents? (Be very specific; for example, "gun" wouldn't be enough.)

4 letter minimum.
No proper nouns.
No foreign words.
No abbreviations.
10 = +1
Use the dictionary.