Spelling (15). All take all. Do
not copy.
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(2) historian, politician, comedian, pianist, all correct
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(2) librarian, novelist, pharmacist, custodian, all correct
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(2) criticism, idealism, guitarist, skepticism, all correct
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(2) realism, civilian, conformist, mannerism, all correct
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(2) perfectionist, pedestrian, guardian, individualist, all correct
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(2) vetrinarian, equestrian, optimism, pessimist, all correct
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Doubting Thomas : skeptic :: idiosyncrasy : _________
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"foot traveler" = __________
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optimism : pessimism :: conformist : _______
SVA (10).
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Annie and her brothers (is, are) at school.
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The players, as well as the captain, (want, wants) to win.
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Either answer (is, are) acceptable.
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Eight dollars (is, are) the price of a movie these days.
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All of the CDs, even the scratched one, (is, are) in this case.
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(2) There (was, were) fifteen candies in that bag. Now there (is, are)
only one left!
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The man with all the birds (live, lives) on my street.
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(2) Mathematics (is, are) John's favorite subject, while social studies
(is, are) Andrea's favorite subject.
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Vocabulary (10). Skip if "exempt."
You will use one word twice. pell-mell,
slake, usurp, wanton, ambuscade, belie, cessation, multitudinous, certitude
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The Vikings of old were famous for the ____________ destruction they
left in their wake.
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"Buck hurried on, swiftly and stealthily, every nerve straining and
tense, alert to the ____ details which together told a story -- all but
the end."
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Buck was "never at loss for the tangled way, heading straight home through
strange country with a ___________ of direction that put man and his magnetic
needle to shame."
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"Nor did he give the wounded bull opportunity to _________ his burning
thirst in the slender trickling streams they crossed."
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"Then they became friendly, and played about in the nervous, half-coy
way with which fierce beasts ____________ their fierceness."
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naive : skeptical :: organized : __________
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"Death, as a __________ of movement, as a passing out and away from
the lives of the living, he knew..."
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"...when he climbed cautiously in at the window he uncovered a(n) ______,
in the person of his aunt..."
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"For the last time in his life he allowed passion to __________ cunning
and reason, and it was because of his great love for John Thornton that
he lost his head."
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"There is a patience of the wild -- dogged, tireless, persistent as
life itself -- that holds motionless for endless hours: the spider in its
web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its __________..."
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