Spelling Pretest #11 -- Seventh Grade -- 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. He writes the most puzzling mystary stories.
2. Terms like irony, flashback, conflict,  foreshadowing, and protagonist are called litterary terms.
3. The spy was accused of trechary against his country.
4. Can you prove your theary about the comet?
5. Her bravary resulted in lives being saved.
6. My primary goal is to graduate with honors.
7. His skill with the basketball is legendery.
8. Please don't resort to fourgery if you forget to get your KBAR signed.
9. His relatives are burried in that cemetary.
10. This is not elementery school any more.
11. Scientists study the skies at an obzervatory.
12. The baby's nursary was painted blue.
13. My dad didn't think I had done a satisfactory job cutting the grass, he didn't pay me.
14. The unicorn is an imaginery animal.
15. Nothing unusual hapenned on this ordinery day.
16. The machinary runs better when it is oiled.
17. The fence marks the boundery of the land.
18. She got a temperary job during her vacation from school.
19. She was insulted by the derogatory comment about her hair.
20. The itinerary for our trip was seven cities in ten days.
21. The company's hiring policies were found to be were discriminutory.
22. My Mom sent me to the grocary store.
23. Is your personality shaped more by hereditary factors or envirnomental ones?
24. This praliminary spelling test determines how many words your final test will have.
25. We watched a documentery on The History Channel.
26. The extra credit is strictly voluntery don't do it if you don't want to.
27. He has an almost photographic memery.
28. They put the prisoner into solatary confinement.

Vocabulary -- canvass (v), marked (adj), earnest, picturesque, diverge/converge, sinuous, proscribe, precarious

1. He made a(n) ____________ effort, and his hard work paid off.
2. The little cabin was __________ and funky, but it wasn't very comfortable.
3. The volunteers ___________(ed) the neighborhood, talking to people, and trying to get them to vote.
4. After studying, his test scores showed a __________  increase.
5. The teacher _________(ed) the use of notes on the test.
6. He teetered in a ___________ position at the edgr of the cliff.
7. (2) The road ___________(ed), and then ____________(ed), forming an "x."
8. The cave was like a labyrinth, full of dead-ends and _________ twists and turns.