Spelling Pretest #5.  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 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.  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, you might be famous or important enough to publish a ____________ of your life.  a) memoir  b) memior  c) memwar  d) memorior  e) none of the above
19. It takes many years of education to become a ____________ a) physision  b) physition  c) phisician  d) physician  e) none of the above
20. 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
21. My student ____________ must have a lot of computer savvy.  a) asistent  b) assistent  c) asistant  d) assisstant  e) assistant
22. Salt is ____________ in water. That's what makes saltwater.  a) soluable  b) soluble  c) saluble  d) solluble  e) none of the above
23. ____________ two tablets in a glass of water and drink.  a) disolve  b) dissoulve  c) dissolve  d) none of the above

This Week's Roots.

1. cis = _______  a) to break  b) to mark or seal  c) to go toward, to seek, to try for  d) to cut  e) mindful
2. 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
3. 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
4. sig = _______  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
5. phys = _______ a) circle  b) to see  c) sound  d) nature  e) to loosen or to free
6. solv = _______ a) circle  b) to see  c) sound  d) nature  e) to loosen or to free
7. mem = _______ a) to break  b) to mark or seal  c) to go toward, to seek, to try for  d) to cut  e) mindful
8. frac/frag = _______ a) to break  b) to mark or seal  c) to go toward, to seek, to try for  d) to cut  e) mindful
9. hypo = _________  a) greater than/excessive  b) less than/lower  c) to decide or judge  d) nature  e) mindful

Vocabulary - escalate, magnitude, anguish, cult, sinuous, suppress, exuberant, indulge, luminous, haphazard

1. Our previous president didn't understand the ____________ of the problem of global warming.  PoS:     Synonym:
2. Recent studies have concluded that cough ____________(ants) don't really work.    PoS:     Synonym:
3. The people of the Community think they have created a utopia, but to us it looks more like some sort of __________.    PoS:     Synonym:
4. On the last day of school, the kids ran ____________(ly) through the halls screaming happily.    PoS:     Synonym:
5. Her approach to teaching was rather ______________; a little of this, a little of that, and not much organization.    PoS:     Synonym:
6. Grandparents like to ____________ their grandkids, spoling them with candy and suchlike.    PoS:     Synonym:
7. After the second offense the punishment _____________(s) from a chastisement to use of the discipline wand.    PoS:     Synonym:
8. The candle inside the pumpkin made it ______________.    PoS:     Synonym:
9. The people of the Community have never experienced real pain or ____________.  PoS:     Synonym:
10. The road wound ______________(ly) through the rainforest, with twists and turns everywhere.    PoS:     Synonym: