(8th grade) Spelling List #5.  As always, look for extra credit mistakes to find and fix. The pretest is Tuesday.
  1. He is a famous furniture designer.
  2. When the car's wheels are out of alignment, the steering is wobbly.
  3. His campaign for president was surprisingly low-key.
  4. The rat gnawed through the wires.
  5. I am indebted to you for your help in this matter.
  6. It is doubtful I will accept it this late.
  7. The psalms are an often quoted part of the Bible.
  8. Dr. Strauss wouldn't let Charlie study psychology.
  9. I ate spaghetti with marinara sauce.
  10. The ghetto version of Monopoly is offensive and racist.
  11. He took a solemn vow to tell the truth.
  12. She wrote a column in the newspaper.
  13. The prisoner was condemned to die.
  14. Orange is considered an autumn color.
  15. I had no qualms about trusting her; she has never let me down.
  16. I calmly called 911.
  17. The plumbing in the old house was leaky.
  18. The shot the doctor gave me numbed the pain.
  19. I heard a rhythmic tapping at the door.
  20. The poem was one of those that rhymed.
  21. We bought acreage for our ranch.
  22. The police lieutenant investigated the case personally.
  23. The creek dried up in the drought.
  24. There was no guarantee that we'd survive.
  25. We didn't have enough players, so we had to forfeit the game.

Across
1. It gets you moving.
5. Ghost or spirit.
6. Clear-thinking.
8. Get worse and worse.

Down
1. Having to do with language.
2. Damage or make worse.
3. Under the level of your senses
4. Weak
5. Savvy.
7. Rhymes with witch.

Vocabulary -- impair, subliminal, feeble, specter, semantic, deteriorate, stimulus, shrew, shrewd, lucid
  1. Some people claim that rock songs have hidden, _________ messages embedded in them.
  2. During the drought, the ___________ of hunger hungs over the small village. Every morsel of food was valuable.
  3. Will you take care of me when I am old and ____________.
  4. Alcohol __________(s) the senses. That's why drinking and driving is illegal.
  5. Miss Kinnian is afraid Charlie's operation will reverse itself, and his mind will ____________.
  6. With so many pain-killing drugs in his system, he was rarely ___________ enough to talk to.
  7. One of Shakespeare's most famous comedies is The Taming of the ________, a story of a woman whom we might call a word that rhymes with witch.
  8. This word means savvy: _______________
  9. Even though we all speak the same language, there are significant ____________ variations, depending on where in the US you are.