Wednesday, 10/6/99
Analogies (Warm up)
Example: needle : sew : : shovel : __dig__
A. garbage : rot : : ice : _______
B. tobacco : cigarette : : meat : _______
C. boxer : athlete : : chair : ________
Verbs and Vocabulary Pretest
1."You’re hungry?" he said ____(ly), "I haven’t eaten all day!"
2. The students ________(ed) the teacher to go easy on them.
3. Johnny persisted ___________ in asking about his parents.
4. "Gee," Johnny said ___________(ly), "it sure will be good to get into a car again."
5. My parents were a little _______ about the crowd I was hanging out with.
6. We are starting to see that Dally’s toughness is just a ______ to hide the pain he feels inside.
7. The boys hid in the church to ___________ the police.
8. The boys _______(ly) went into the church to save the kids.
9. Pony looked at Johnny _________(ingly). "Please don't cut my hair!"
10. Pony was ______ as he thought about how life in the country might be.
11. It is _____(ic) that now that he is the country he's not really enjoying it.
12. "It's not fair!" I cried ___________(ly).
13. jump : verb : : ugly : ________
14. dumbfounded : incredulous : : gullible : ___________
15.(3) Homonyms are words that...
16. (5) The words ______, _______, _____, ______, _____ are all forms of the same word, be, and all are _____(s).		 doggedly, 
wistful, 
incredible, 
implore, 
indignant, 
facade, 
credulous, 
elude, 
gallant, 
leery, 
noun, 
adjective, 
verb, 
aloof , 
irony 
 

(Three 
not 
used, 
some 
used 
twice.)
17. The burning embers fell on us, stinging like many angry ants.(2n, 4adj, 2v)

EXTRA CREDIT:
a) The prefix "homo", as in the word homonym, means _______.
b) The prefix "in", as in the words incredible and incredulous, means _______.
c) Name a poem by Robert Frost.

Outsiders Chapter 6