Warm Up. Copy into notebook. * rubric : grades :: camera : _____________ * flowers : bouquet :: musicians : _________ * professional : money :: amateur : __________ * coupon : savings :: exercise : ___________ * mesa : plateau :: trash : ___________ * extraordinary : routine :: specific : _________

Vocabulary Pretest. You will use some words more than once. You might not use them all.
graft, resilient, resilience, aurora, expendable, poised, infinitesimal, paradox, primeval, emanate, subliminal

1. He is not an ________ member of the team; we need his help desperately.
2. The gardener _________(ed) a new limb onto the ailing tree.
3. Since there were 1,000 points possible in the quarter, one or two would be a(n) _______ amount.
4. When we moved, we got rid of everything that we considered _________.
5. In some Third World countries, the police are paid so little that they have to resort to ___________ to survive.
6. There is a lot of ___________ advertising in movies. They call it "product placement."
7. A trampoline is, by definition, ___________.
8. "The government doesn’t like us here. We have to pay big ___________ to keep our business."
9. "That'd be a ________. Time doesn't permit that sort of mess -- a man meeting himself."
10. He tried to be very ________ and calm when he met his girlfriend's parents.
11. It was hard to believe that such a big voice ________(ed) from such a little girl
12. The display of colored lights in the sky that happens near the North Pole is called the _________ borealis. (EC+1) It is more commonly known as the ________ _________.