Spelling Pretest #12 ('07) Roots!

1. I'm sure your mother told you to never run with ____.  a) siscers  b) sissors  c) scissors  d) sissers  e) scissers
2. Please handle that expensive, glass vase with care; it's ___. a) fragale  b) fragile  c) frajil  d) fragille  e) none of the above
3. Too many cars and too few roads equals traffic ___. a) conjestion  b) cungestion  c) congetion  d) congestion  e) none of the above
4. Eating a lot of fiber helps with your ___. a) digestion  b) dagestion  c) degestion  d) diagestion  e) none of the above.
5. Getting a ticket is not quite like committing a crime. It's called an ___ of the vehicle code.  a) infarction  b) infracetion  c) innfraction  d) infraiction  e) none of the above
6. The surgeon made a long ___ to begin the surgery.  a) incision  b) encision  c) insiscion  d) insision  e) none of the above.
7. After seeing that movie, I lost my ___. a) apetite  b) appatite  c) appitite  d) appetite  e) none of the above.
8. The tournament featured some pretty good ___. a) compatition  b) compitition.  c) competition  d) computition  e) none of the above
9. The truck had the band's ____ painted on the side.  a) insignia  b) insignea  c) insigenia  d) none of the above
10. I thought the teacher's ___ of my essay was a little harsh.  a) criteak  b) criteaque  c) criteque  d) critique  e) none of the above
11. Preaching one thing, and doing the opposite usually means you are a ___. a) hippocrit  b) hypocrit  c) hypocrite  d) hippocrite  e) none of the above
12. He was known as a very ___ leader, who didn't hesitate.  a) dacisive  b) dasisive  c) desisive  d) decisive  e) none of the above
13. For centuries, man has tried to create a ___motion machine, that will run forever. (It's physically impossible.)  a) perpetual  b) perpetuel  c) perpetchual  d) pirpetual  e) none of the above
14. After teams are decided, you will have to ____ a leader for your group.  a) designat  b) designate  c) designeate d) none of the above
15. The teacher took a lot of ___ for being hard on the students, but in the end they thanked him.  a) critisism  b) critiscism  c) criticism  d) noe of the above
16. Please try to ___ your differences instead of fighting.  a) rezolve  b) reasolve  c) resoalve  d) resolve  e) none of the above
17. Sports ____ sometimes goes for a lot of money these days.  a) memerobelia  b) memorabelia  c) memorobilia  d) memorabilia  e) none of the above
18. Someday, youmight be famous or imporatnt enough to publish a ___ of your life.  a) memoir  b) memior  c) memwar  d) memorior  e) none of the above
19. It's actually rather easy to make a simple ___. a) kalidoscope  b) kaleidoscope  c) kaliedoscope  d) kaleidascope  e) none of the above
20. The submarine raised its ___ and looked around for enemy ships.  a) perascope b) peeriscope  c) pariscope  d) periscope  e) none of the above
21. It takes many years of education to become a ___. a) physision  b) physition  c) phisician  d) physician  e) none of the above
22. To be a doctor, you would study, among many other things, ___, the study of the human body.  a) phisiology  b) physeology  c) physiology  d) none of the above
23. My student ___ must have a lot of computer savvy.  a) asistent  b) assistent  c) asistant  d) assisstant  e) assistant
24. Salt is ___ in water. That's what makes saltwater.  a) soluable  b) soluble  c) saluble  d) solluble  e) none of the above
25. ___two tablets in a glass of water and drink.  a) disolve  b) dissoulve  c) dissolve  d) none of the above
26. cis = ___  a) to break  b) to mark or seal  c) to go toward, to seek, to try for  d) to cut  e) mindful
27. gest = ___ a) to decide or judge  b) to mark or seal  c) to go toward, to seek, to try for  d) to cut  e) to bear, carry, or bring
28. crit = ___ a) to decide or judge  b) to mark or seal  c) to go toward, to seek, to try for  d) to cut  e) to bear, carry, or bring
29. phys = ___ a) circle  b) to see  c) sound  d) nature  e) to loosen or to free
30. solv = ___ a) circle  b) to see  c) sound  d) nature  e) to loosen or to free
31. pet = ___ a) to break  b) to mark or seal  c) to go toward, to seek, to try for  d) to cut  e) mindful
32. mem = ___ a) to break  b) to mark or seal  c) to go toward, to seek, to try for  d) to cut  e) mindful
33. frac/frag = ___ a) to break  b) to mark or seal  c) to go toward, to seek, to try for  d) to cut  e) mindful