II. Go over Vocabulary Homework.
III. Vocabulary Pretest. You might use words more than once. You might not use them all.

1. The game of Survivor is full of ________ and back-stabbing.   a) disconsolate  b) pallid  c) croon  d) treachery  e) blasphemy
2. exposed : buried :: complimentary : ___   a) fawning  b) derogatory  c) pallid  d) naive  e) blasphemy
3. The movie studios sometimes pay writers to write _________ reviews of the worst movies, so it looks like someone liked them.   a) fawning  b) derogatory  c) pallid  d) croon  e) indiscriminate
4. Make sure that, on your pink sheet, you don't just _________(ly) underline every pronoun you see. Make sure you mark only the type of pronoun asked for.   a) indiscriminate  b) derogatory  c) pallid  d) flourish  e) naive
5. After Maggie's son died she was _____.   a) fawning  b) derogatory  c) pallid  d) blasphemy  e) disconsolate
6. The wedding singer ______(ed) a love song at the reception.   a) blasphemy  b) pallid  c) croon  d) treachery  e) naive
7. His face was as ______ as the ghost he thought he saw.   a) naive  b) pallid  c) croon  d) treachery  e) disconsolate
8. Vanna White's career has ______(ed) simply by her turning of the letters with a _______.  a) treachery, flourish  b) blasphemy, croon  c) croon, flourish  d) flourish, flourish  e) flourish, fawning
9. After all that hard work, his only compensation turned out to be a "Good job," and he was ______ about that for a long time.   a) flourish  b) disconsolate  c) croon  d) treachery e)  fawning
10. One of the crimes Joan of Arc was burned for was ___________ against the church.  a) derogatory  b) naive  c) fawning  d) blasphemy  e) croon
11. Some people think that it is childish and ________ to think that there is a god, or life after death. Other, more religious, people might believe that sort of thinking is ___________(ous).  a) derogatory/naive  b) treachery/blasphemy  c) fawning/naive  d) naive/blasphemy  e) croon/indiscriminate
12. His arm was weak, and the skin on it was ___________, after his cast was taken off. a) compensate  b) pallid  c) croon  d) treachery  e) flourishing \

IV. The Martian Chronicles: "-and the Moon..." (Part One p48-61)