Pretest #10 -- Seventh Grade

1. I ran across the broad plaza to the hotel.
2. Will there be music and games at the feesta?
3. Please fill my tortila with chicken.
4. A short seesta is nice after a busy morning.
5. A donkey and a burroe carried our gear.
6. He threw a pancho across his shoulders.
7. A sombraro has a broad brim to shade the body.
8. I slept in the hamock hanging on the porch.
9. I love peach ice cream and choclate.
10. A ripe red tomatoe is great in salads.
11. May I have extra sauce on my cheese enchilada.
12. A buritoe can be filled with meat and beans.
13. The allagator is one very scary reptile!
14. The mine produced a bonanza of gold.
15.  We ate lunch outside on the shady pateo.
16. The huge ship hauled a cargoe of trucks
17. I love spicy chile con carne topped with onions.
18. Would a cup of cocoe help to warm you up?
19. Add vanila to the batter for extra flavor.
20. An igwana looks like a small dinosaur.
21. He likes to eat bake potatos.
22. The giant sequoia is an anshent tree.
23. His car has a custum  paint job.
24. There is still an embargoe on trade with Cuba.
25. In Vietnam the army faced gorilla tactics.

Vocabulary: bliss, fickle, apathetic, prodigious, magnanimous, palpable, wary, lugubrious

1. A person who is _________ is probably not going to be a good friend, since he/she probably won't be very reliable.
2. We were very suspicious of the dark alley, so we were ______ when we approached it.
3. Tom's __________ was complete when he made up with Becky.
4. After working so hard, he wanted his reward to be something ________, not just a "Good job!"
5. One reason that few people vote is because many are ___________ about politics and goverment.
6. Tom was very _________ when he took Becky's punishment for her.
7. He ate a _________ number of hot dogs in the contest, so he won.
8. "Presently, a dog set up a long, __________ howl just outside..."