Pretest 12 -- Seventh Grade
  1. A bright flaime burned in the campfire.
  2. Keep flammeble fabrics away from heat.
  3. Use a match to ignite the wood.
  4. A car needs fuel for the ignetion to work.
  5. Gold was discovered at this presise spot.
  6. A jewel must be cut with careful precision.
  7. Is a metre longer than a yard?
  8. The meteric system is one way of measuring.
  9. This micrascope magnifies the smallest items.
  10. This bug is so tiny it is almost micrascopic.
  11. I knew it was serious by his grave look.
  12. The gravety of the problem had us worried.
  13. I am gratefull for your help with my report.
  14. He showed his gratetude by giving me a gift.
  15. She will revize her essay to make it shorter.
  16. This revison will improve your story.
  17. Our best athalete plays football and baseball.
  18. Exercise often if you want an atheletic body.
  19. Our town humaine society cares for stray cats.
  20. All humanidy will benefit from the new drug.
  21. One scoop of ice cream will be sufficient for desert.
  22. One scoop of ice cream will suffise.
  23. A lack of practice will impede your progress.
  24. A lack of practice will be an impedement.
  25. I heard the boom of the explotion.
Vocabulary: Definition, POS, fill in blanks. Due Wednesday.
pungent, splendid, peruse, circuitous, emanate, gaunt, steep, dilapidated, squalor, destitute
As I took a long and (1) ______________ route home from school (I just wanted to see some new sights), I noticed the (2)_____________ smell of liver  and onions (3)_______________(ing) from an old, (4)_________________ house that looked ready to fall down. Obviously the people inside were poor--actually, completely (5)_________________ -- to be living in such depressing (6)________________. But, even though I usually hate liver and  onions, the smells coming from this ramshackle house were  (7)________________.
(8) Before you begin a test, always _________ the directions from beginning to end.

(9) The old man was so ___________ you could see his bones through his skin.
(10) Since he spent his whole life being _____________(ed) in the culture of France, he seemed more French than American.