Wednesday, 2/7/06 -- Early Release Schedule
Warm Up. Copy and Click.

1. With a little persuasion, I was able to ____________ him to lessen the punishment.  a) accumulate  b) displace  c) induce  d) reinforce  e) fluctuate
2. Most classroom rules don't have to be written down, they should be known ________(ly).   a) reinforce  b) bias  c) arbitrary  d) implicit  e) crucial
3. The guest teacher __________(ed) from the lesson plan, and spent the period watching a video.  a) denote  b) exploit  c) manipulate  d) arbitrary  e) deviate
4. The Titanic ___________(ed) more than 13 million gallons of water, making it the world's largest ship at the time.  a) accumulated  b) displace  c) arbitrary  d) induce  e) fluctuate
5. His decision wasn't entirely ____________; he actually had a reason behind it.  a) clarify  b) contemporary  c) uniform  d) arbitrary  e) bias

Go over vocabulary homework. | Vocabulary Pretest. You will use words more than once.

1. The sub was slow to realize when something was ____; he thought everything was fine.  a) forlorn  b) amiss  c) apathetic  d) earnest  e) crestfallen
2. A person cannot be convicted on ________; there must be evidence to back up the accusation.  a) precarious  b) canvass  c) conjecture  d) proscribe  e) omniscient
3. The NFL head coach's position is rather ______. If the team doesn't do well next week, he might lose his job.  a) omniscient  b) forlorn  c) apathetic  d) conjecture  e) precarious
4. Many countries ________ television and music. They claim those things are against the laws of Islam.  a) proscribe  b) amiss  c) precarious  d) conjecture  e) apathetic
5. The ______ river was difficult to navigate because of all its twists and turns.  a) sinuous  b) canvass  c) diverge  d) converge  e) amiss
6. The searchers _______(ed) the cave, looking for the lost miners.  a) forlorn  b) proscribe  c) diverge  d) canvass  e) omniscient
7. In The Outsiders, Ponyboy was a _____ -person, limited narrator. He can tell us only what he sees and hears. In Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain is a ______-person, _________ narrator, who knows everything about everybody.  a) 1st, 2nd, apathetic  b) 1st, 3rd, apathetic  c) 3rd, 1st, omniscient  d) 1st, 3rd, omniscient  e) 3rd, 1st, crestfallen
8. There were many _________(ent)  opinions about what should be done. No one could agree. a) diverge  b) converge  c) conjecture  d) earnest  e) apathetic
9. For two roads form a diamond shape, they must first _____, then ____.  a) converge, diverge  b) diverge, converge
10. For the prank, the bucket was ________(ly) balanced on the top of the door. a) amiss  b) forlorn  c) earnest  d) diverge  e) precarious
11. After Becky rejected him yet again, Tom was _______ and _____, and thought nobody cared for him.  a) forlorn, precarious  b) crestfallen, earnest  c) diverge, converge  d) crestfallen, forlorn  e) earnest, apathetic
12. The class discussion was not very lively; the students were _______ about the topic. a) earnest  b) apathetic  c) crestfallen  d) canvass  e) omniscient