Pretest #18 -- Eighth Grade

1. In San Luis, a morgage on a house can be well over $400,000.
2. If you buy a house with acerage, it can cost much more.
3. When does she plan to fill the job vacency?
4. You must have a lisense to drive a car.
5. For your research paper, remember to check the library's pamflet file.
6. He is not really a friend, just an aquaintence.
7. Did the creek dry up during the drout?
8. A conscientious student might actually study for a test.
9. Our junk drawer is full of miscellaneous items.
10. Pearls covered her exquisite silk gown.
11. The planes did an arial show.
12. Third period was a complete castastophy.
13. Death is inevatable for everyone.
14. If the baseball team forfits, the score is recorded as 9-0.
15. The lootenant reports to the captain.
16. Fine weather gave us an abundent harvest.
17. A colossel wave washed over the jetty.
18. Due to SARS, Hong Kong was under a quarentine.
19. "Second period warn't bad, so to speak, just mischeevous, just harem scarem, you know."
20. We were anxous about the test results.
21. Fifth period has replaced second period as the one that is the biggest newsance.
22. F.B.I stands for Federal Burou of Investigation. (What's that kind of abbreviation called?)
23. The asterik means that the answer will be a spelling word.
24. Her sewing kit contained all the paraphernalia she needed for her hobby.
25. Sophmore is Greek for "______  _______."

Vocabulary -- disheveled, aesthetic, continuum, succumb, acute, suave, wane/wax, affectation, semblance

1. part : section : range : ________
2. After many months of pain, he finally _____________(ed) to his illness.
3. He thought he was a ___________ ladies' man, but he was actually very embarrassingly awkward.
4. Many people spent too much time worrying about the ____________(s), rather than the content of the web page.
5. His ________ appearance was one sign that he had been up for days.
6. The cane he used was a(n) ____________; he didn't really need it.
7. (2) His interest in dinosaurs ___________(ed) as he got older, as his interest in living animals _______(ed).
8. Let's at least have some ___________ of order around here when the parents visit.
9. The pain in his gut was sudden and ________ as soon as he ate the blowfish.