Pretest #10 -- Seventh Grade

1. I ran across the broad plaza to the hotel.
2. Will there be music and games at the feesta?
3. Please fill my tortila with chicken.
4. A short seesta is nice after a busy morning.
5. A donkey and a burroe carried our gear.
6. He threw a pancho across his shoulders.
7. A sombraro has a broad brim to shade the body.
8. I slept in the hamock hanging on the porch.
9. I love peach ice cream and choclate.
10. A ripe red tomatoe is great in salads.
11. May I have extra sauce on my cheese enchilada.
12. A buritoe can be filled with meat and beans.
13. The allagator is one very scary reptile!
14. The mine produced a bonanza of gold.
15.  We ate lunch outside on the shady pateo.
16. The huge ship hauled a cargoe of trucks
17. I love spicy chile con carne topped with onions.
18. Would a cup of cocoe help to warm you up?
19. Add vanila to the batter for extra flavor.
20. An igwana looks like a small dinosaur.
21. He likes to eat bake potatos.
22. The giant sequoia is an anshent tree.
23. His car has a custum  paint job.
24. There is still an embargoe on trade with Cuba.
25. In Vietnam the army faced gorilla tactics.

Vocabulary: grotesque, cadence, aromatic, metamorphosis, censor, ruminate, elixir, transfixed, scapegoat, interim

1. The Marine drill seargent counted the ___________ for the soldiers, "Left, right! Left, right, left!"
2. The bed and bath store had many ______________ candles and soaps to choose from.
3. The half-time show is the _____________ between the two halves.
4. Supposedly Ponce de Leon was looking in the swamps of Florida for an __________ of youth.
5. He wore a rather _____________ mask for Halloween.
6. My little brother is often the _____________ for my misdeeds.
7. Franz Kafka wrote a story called "The ______________," where a man wakes up to find he has become a huge cockroach.
8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of the top fifty books of all time as far as being ________(ed), for its use of the word "nigger."
9. The old man sat long hours on the front porch, rocking and  _______________(ing) on life.
10. He stood, ___________ by the sight, unable to even blink.