Pretest #20 -- Eighth Grade

1. When he asked me if I wanted to go to Vegas, I said I was agreeible.
2. The stars fasinate him.
3. To apolagize isn't enough; you have to change the behavior.
4. Lifting weights will strengthin your body.
5. Falsifying evidence is a crime.
6. She likes to celabrate any holiday.
7. The accurasy rate of psychics is not very high.
8. The illustrations in that book are lovely.
9. The alien overlords made it clear that resistance was futile.
10. Did your corespondence with him via e-mail work out?
11. His timid words showed his hesitancy to act.
12. In computer slang, a feature is a help, and a bug is a hinderance.
13. Since his infansy he has been a very good-natured boy.
14. It took a long time after 9/11 for the country to return to some sort of normalsy.
15. Second period always strives for excelance.
16. The importence of this assignment cannot be overstated.
17. Any goal is attanable if you try hard enough.
18. He deliberitely kicked the penguin into the water.
19. The price of any item you break is deductible from your paycheck.
20. He is very knowlegeable about bears.
21. The mastermind orchestrated the crime from his prison cell.
22. TV populerizes many silly things.
23. Have you finalized your plans yet?
24. To many of us, the dogs in The Call of the Wild are not treated humanly.
25. He relentlessly attacked Spitz until he was down.

Suffixes. ly: __________,  ate: ___________, ence/ance: _________, ible/able: __________, cy:__________, ize:_________,
Vocabulary
defray, futile, subjugate, disgruntled, foreboding, ostentatious, pandemonium, wallow, zeal

1. It was __________ to resist Buck; he would inevitably win.
2. Slavery is the ___________(ion) of one person by another.
3. He had a sense of ____________ as he read the newspaper; something bad was going to happen today.
4. His diamond cufflinks were a bit __________ for the simple ceremony.
5. To __________ the cost of the field trip, the class had a car wash.
6. Second period is often the scene of ____________.
7. His ___________ for travel is evident from all the stamps on his passport.
8. A ___________ former employee was responsible for the vandalism.
9. Try not to ________ in self-pity. It is time to move on.