Spelling Pretest #8 -- Seventh Grade.
  1. We study shapes and angles in geometrey.
  2. Outline the perrimeter of the court with chalk.
  3. The diammeter of a circle divides it in half.
  4. Mike drew a diegram to describe his room.
  5. Some rulers can measure a centameter.
  6. Is a kilagram more than two pounds?
  7. Many trees were blown down by the cycleone.
  8. My soup stays warm in this thermus.
  9. A physiscian cares for people who are ill.
  10. You can look up the dates in an encyclapedia.
  11. I read the thermometer to see how cold it was.
  12. Matter is a major topic in physics class.
  13. The news came by telagram instead of by mail.
  14. Which sentence has a gramatical error?
  15. A barrometer measures ____ , and is a big help in predicting the weather.
  16. They put in a thermastat to regulate the heat.
  17. Exercise has given him a lean physique.
  18. Always wear a helmet when riding a motercycle.
  19. My thermle hat keeps me warm in winter.
  20. The seasons repeat in a cyclicle pattern.
  21. It is better to reuse than to recycle.
  22. The word god is an anigram of the word dog.
  23. The pianist used a metranome to practice  keeping steady time.
  24. Grammer is the study of how language works.
  25. He had to get a physical before basketball season.
gram = _______, phys = ______, cycl = _______, therm = _______, meter/metry = ______

Vocabulary--Definition, POS in notebook, fill in the blanks. Due Wednesday.
hieroglyph, (im)perceptible, telepathy, sallow (adj), solicitous, peevish, neurosis, trivial, rigmarole

  1. One of the signs of liver disease is when your skin gets somewhat ________ in color.
  2. To build an addition onto their house, the Smiths had to go through a lot of ___________ with the city in order to get the right permits and such.
  3. Even though we had had arguments in the past, he was very _______ when we saw each other, asking after my family and my health.
  4. His annoying behavior was making the teacher quite ___________.
  5. The game _________ Pursuit has lots of questions about relatively meaningless shtuff.
  6. It is almost like my mom is capable of _____________. She can almost literally read my mind.
  7. He had a little _________ about being tidy. He couldn't leave a room without cleaning it up.
  8. He made an almost ___________ movement with his head, but his teammate picked up on it.
  9. His handwriting was almost like __________(s). The teacher had to make him "translate."