Wednesday, 1/13/10
Warm Up. Click and copy.
  1. With your nose plugged, your taste buds can't ______ between an onion and an apple.  a) aggregate  b) explicit  c) scope  d) discriminate  e) enhance
  2. The police officer ____(ed) her for running a stop sign. a) scope  b) discriminate  c) inhibit  d) acknowledge  e) cite
  3. During W.W.II, a person with a car was  ____(ed) only three gallons of gas per week.  a) subsidy  b) allocate  c) aggregate  d) transform  e) cite
  4. Rocket science is outside the ______ of this class.  a) cite  b) furthermore  c) abstract  d) incidence  e) scope
  5. Computers are getting cheaper all the time; ____, their quality is improving.  a) cite  b) furthermore  c) abstract  d) incidence  e) scope
  6. Mr. Coward was very _____ about how he wanted us to head the paper. a) aggregate  b) inhibit  c) explicit  d) discriminate  e) enhance
Go over vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest. You might use words more than once. You might not use them all. Then again, you might.
  1. Esteban's project was almost finished, and then his mother started to ____ with it. He was up all night fixing it.  a) flounder  b) whorl  c) meddle  d) meander  e) bustle
  2. Jane the Midwife ______(ed)  into the room and took charge of the situation.  a) meander  b) flounder  c) compendium  d) meddle  e) bustle
  3. Sometimes the _____ of a cure lies in the mind of the person who believes it will work.  a) conscientious  b) efficacy  c) revelry  d) compendium  e) ample   (Bonus for +1: This is called the "_____ effect.")
  4. From the author's description, Grommet Smith has a rather _______ figure. (Hint: She's, ummm, fat.) a) conscientious  b) efficacy  c) revelry  d) bustle  e) ample
  5. He wasn't a very ______ student so his grades were not very good.  a) conscientious  b) efficacy  c) revelry  d) meander  e) ample
  6. The field full of flowers was a ______ of color as the wind blew them this way and that.  a) flounder  b) whorl  c) meddle  d) meander  e) bustle
  7. Unless you leave Laguna with some good reading skills, you will _____ in high school.   a) meander  b) flounder  c) compendium  d) meddle  e) bustle
  8. The holiday season is a time for ______ and for quiet family gatherings.  a) flounder  b) efficacy  c) meddle  d) meander  e) revelry
  9. The road  "________(ed) easterly and northerly until it ended in the glory that was St. Swithin's Day Fair."   a) flounder  b) bustle  c) meddle  d) meander  e) revelry
  10. exact : approximate  ::  nonchalant : _____   a) bustle  b) conscientious  c) revelry  d) meander  e) ample
  11. ugliness : beauty :: mourning : _______   a) conscientious  b) efficacy  c) revelry  d) compendium  e) ample
  12. flounder : fish  :: encyclopedia : _______  a) bustle  b) efficacy  c) revelry  d) compendium  e) ample
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