1. candidate : speeches :: election : *____________
2. vacuum : clean :: *__________ : measure
3. promise : guarantee :: job : * ____________
4. same : similar :: white : *____________
5. tortoise : shell :: piston : * _________
6. before : prior :: alien : * _________

Vocabulary Pretest -- You will use some words more than once, you will not use them all.
gratification, (im)perishable, jeer, stupor, bode, wane/wax, wretch, oppress(ive), effusive, clamor(ous)

1. After a while, interest in yoyos _________(ed) and some other fad took over.
2. The echoes of Tom's shouts in the cave sounded like ________(ing) laughter that mocked them.
3. Tom felt a little sorry for Injun Joe, "for he knew how this _________ had suffered."
4. Tom went behind the limestone "waterfall" in order to use his candle to light it up for Becky's __________.
5. You should refrigerate ________(s) like milk and eggs, because they quickly go bad if you don't.
6. (2) As the month goes on, the moon will ________ until it is full, and then ________.
7. When the boys came back from "the dead," Aunt Polly _________(ly) hugged and kissed Tom, and then embarrassed Huck by doing the same to him.
8. The sub didn't have much control over the class, and there was quite a ________ when the principal walked in.
9. Tom thought that Huck's dream about rats was a ________(ing) that trouble was ahead.
10. Some people find the heat in the tropics _______. They find it's too hot for them to do much of anything.