Pretest 12 -- Eighth Grade
  1. This referance book gives current facts
  2. I will transfure money to my bank from his.
  3. The abstract painting was a colorfull blur.
  4. The piece of gossip was traseable back to one student who started it all.
  5. Trash disposle is a problem for this town.
  6. What is your purpose in telling me this?
  7. We share some opinions, but we differ on others.
  8. I will offer a proposel on what we should do.
  9. Heat is the oppisite of cold.
  10. Do not end a sentence with a prepasition.
  11. I will conferr with my partner on this matter before I answer your question.
  12. Listening to music will disstract you from studying.
  13. It is wise to limit your expozure to the sun.
  14. Tom Sawyer was a composit of three kids Mark Twain knew growing up.
  15. I do not want to impose on your hospitality by staying too long.
  16. My prefarence is comfort over style.
  17. The soil was fertal, and could support many crops.
  18. Snow tires provide trackshun on ice and snow.
  19. Use a protrakter to measure the angle.
  20. The detective made an inferents about the identity of the killer based on the clues.
  21. Can good posture make your back stronger?
  22. The perpetual sneer on his face showed his mean dispasition.
  23. Even food doesn't decumpose in a modern landfill.
  24. Your research paper will need a bibleography.
  25. One of your sources might be the encyclapedia.
fer = _______, pos = _________, tract/trace = _________, graph = _______, cycl = _________

Vocabulary -- flounder (v), enumerate, surmount, flotsam, pall, contrive, yaw (v), superimpose, juxtapose, conflagration

  1. He ____________(ed) all the advantages of his plan, conveniently leaving out the problems.
  2. The 1906 SF earthquake caused a _____________ that lasted 3 days.
  3. He seemed to think he could _____________ any problem, just like climbing a mountain.
  4. After the shipwreck, the sea was filled with the __________ from the ship.
  5. The class was too hard for him, and he was _________(ing) like a drowning man.
  6. The titles were _________________(ed) over the photos.
  7. The smoke cast a _____________ over the city.
  8. The earthquake caused the bus to _________ off the side of the road.
  9. In his paintings, the artist liked to ______________ seemingly unlike things.
  10. "Necessity is the mother of invention" means that often, when you need something, you will _____________ a way to get it.