Pretest  #03 -- Seventh Grade
In your notebook, write the correct spelling of each boldfaced, underlined word. Some are already correct, most are not. Also be on the lookout for any other mechanical mistakes to fix for extra credit.
1. Is the unaverse endless?
2. A bilion of anything is almost impossable to imagine.
3. I can see almost a mile with my binoculers .
4. One leg of the camera tripod  is bent.
5. Each snowflake is younique .
6. Please sing this song in unason .
7. Dan can do a tripel  flip.
8. We sat in a semicircle  around the fire.
9. Fold each strip into the shape of a triangel .
10. Both tires on his bycicle  were flat.
11. How can we unafy  the different groups?
12. The tripletts  often wear matching clothes.
13. Use a semicollon  to connect parts of a sentence that could be sentences on their own.
14. Swimmers have strong biseps  and upper arms.
15. We have six bimonthly  art classes a year.
16. The thirteen colonies pleged their unaty .
17. A treo  of clowns ran around the ring.
18. My Mom is a student at the  unavercity .
19. Our bianual  meetings are in spring and fall.
20. Will our team be playing in the  semifinals ?
21. Please obzerve  what happens next in the expariment.
22. What jigantic  bean stalk!
23. The bus will exsplode  if it goes less than 50 miles per hour.
24. The leader tried to unite  the warring tribes.
25. California has more bilingal  people than most states.

uni = ________ bi = _________ tri = __________  semi = __________ cycl = ________

Vocabulary: First, look up the words below, and write the definition and the part-of-speech (POS) for each in your notebook. Then fill in the blanks below with the correct words. Due Wednesday.
elude, ironic, credible, incredulous, credulous, facade, wince, premonition, bootleg, stamina
1. I tried to act cheerful, but it was just a ________. I was really depressed inside.
2. Pony had a __________ that something bad might happen in the old church.
3. The criminal ran through the alley to __________ the police.
4. Cherry was _____________ that Dally tried to bring her a Coke. She couldn’t believe it!
5. My mom didn’t think my excuse was ____________. She didn’t believe a word of it.
6. His friend gave him a ___________ copy of the video game.
7. It was ____________ that the police station was robbed.
8. The ___________ kid from the country was an easy target for the savvy con-man from New York.
9. Joe was too out of shape, and didn't have the ______________ to finish the race.
10. "Johnny's eyes went round, and he ____________(ed) as though I'd belted him."
 
Latin root: cred = ____________