Spelling Pretest #11 -- In your notebook, write the correct spelling of each boldfaced, underlined word. Some are already correct, most are not. Also be on the lookout for any other mechanical mistakes to fix for extra credit.
  1. He writes the most puzzling mystary stories.
  2. Terms like irony, flashback, conflict, foreshadowing, and protagonist are called litterary terms.
  3. Can you prove your theary about the comet?
  4. Her bravary resulted in lives being saved.
  5. My primary goal is to graduate with honors.
  6. His skill with the basketball is legendery.
  7. Please don't resort to fourgery if you forget to get your KBAR signed.
  8. His relatives are burried in that cemetary.
  9. This is not elementery school any more.
  10. Scientists study the skies at an obzervatory.
  11. The baby's nursary was painted blue.
  12. My dad didn't think I had done a satisfactory job cutting the grass, he didn't pay me.
  13. The unicorn is an imaginery animal.
  14. Nothing unusual hapenned on this ordinery day.
  15. The machinary runs better when it is oiled.
  16. The fence marks the boundery of the land.
  17. She got a temperary job during her vacation from school.
  18. The itinerary for our trip was seven cities in ten days.
  19. The company's hiring policies were found to be were discriminutory.
  20. My Mom sent me to the grocary store.
  21. Is your personality shaped more by hereditary factors or envirnomental ones?
  22. This praliminary test shows what words you need to study.
  23. We watched a documentery on The History Channel.
  24. The extra credit is strictly voluntery don't do it if you don't want to.
  25. He has an almost photographic memery.
  26. They put the prisoner into solatary confinement.
Vocabulary- treachery, derogatory, disconsolate, croon, dynamo, flourish (n and v), pallid, indiscriminate, compensate
  1. The Black Plague killed __________(ly); almost everyone, rich and poor alike, was affected.
  2. After working so hard for so long, he was _____________ after he lost the race.
  3. If you care for your pet, it will ______________.
  4. Dracula is pictured as being tall and thin, with __________ skin from only being out at night.
  5. The spy was accused of __________ against his country.
  6. The baby's mom ____________(ed) a lullaby to try to help her sleep.
  7. Jimmy was a real ___________, with so much energy, he was like a power plant.
  8. He opened the door for her with a _____________ and a bow.
  9. He tried to _____________ for being short by being extra aggressive.
  10. She was insulted by the _____________ comment about her hair.