Vocabulary Pretest 4/27/05

Mr. Coward

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Be sure to write the answers in your notebook as well as typing in the web form. Spelling counts. You will use words more than once; you might not use them all. The ones that end and begin with ... should be considered one sentence. Be sure to add any endings as shown.
edify, tract, reprove, cowed, gumption, caucused, brusque, maelstrom, rebuff, thwart

  1. Jaggery told Hollybrass to whip Zachariah "with strength," or else to "stand aside for someone who has the ______________."

    2. Your answer:

  2. After Charlotte asked to be a part of the crew, they ____________ amongst themselves, and decided that...

    3. Your answer:

  3. ...if she had the ____________ to climb to the top of the mainmast, she would be allowed to sign on.

    4. Your answer:

  4. For that first test, Charlotte climbed the mast on a calm day, later she has to do it during a ____________.

    5. Your answer:

  5. Jaggery __________(ed) Charlotte's efforts to apologize...

    6. Your answer:

  6. ...and he didn't just _____________ her, he told her she was on her own, at the mercy of the crew.

    7. Your answer:

  7. People say New Yorkers are very ___________, almost rude, and always in a hurry.

    8. Your answer:

  8. When Tom Sawyer's whole town "got religion," even Huck was seen giving out religious ___________(s) to people.

    9. Your answer:

  9. People read both for pleasure and _____________(cation). (*Change the ending of the original word.)

    10. Your answer:

  10. Before they walked on the field, the team was already __________ by the thought of how big and intimidating the other team was.

    11. Your answer:

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