Vocabulary
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My favorite on-line dictionary: Merriam-Webster
On the test, students are expected to define the word part correctly (4 points) and to provide two correctly-spelled, valid examples of words using that word part (1 point each).
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Vocabulary 5-6 List is a Review Test. 
This test will be 4/16/09 (The week we return from Spring Break).

Words on the Review test are highlighted using white text in the lists above.
Vocabulary 5-1
copied 2/24/09
test 3/5/09
1.  appraisal
2.  gumption
3.  despise
4.  repose
5.  triumphant
6.  allocate
7.  pauper
8.  interrogation
9.  distress
10.  crucial
11.  bestow
12.  reverence
13.  extract
14.  aptitude
Vocabulary 5-2
copied 3/3/09
test 3/12/09
1.  notion
2.  dissuade
3.  ominous
4.  allay
5.  premonition
6.  phobia
7.  fortitude
8.  perilous
9.  apprehension
10. deluge
11. pungent
12. extricate
13. yield
14. culprit
Vocabulary 5-3
copied 3/10/09
test 3/19/09
1.  lament
2.  prospect
3.  speculation
4.  jell
5.  indebted
6.  revision
7.  magnitude
8.  unstintingly
9.  mediocrity
10.  loaf
11.  tier
12.  tedium
13.  competence
14.  heckle
Vocabulary 5-4
copied 3/17/09
test 3/26/09
1.  flourish
2.  beneficial
3.  fortify
4.  friar
5.  accompany
6.  delegation
7.  devise
8.  hydraulic
9.  concentrate (n)
10. confectionery
11.  reminiscent
12.  ration
13.  sustain
14.  malnourished
Vocabulary 5-5
copied 3/24/09
test 4/2/09
1.  apartheid
2.  profound
3.  oppression
4.  brutality
5.  resiliency
6.  illusion
7.  obligation
8.  humane
9.  incomprehensible
10.  utter
11.  obstruct
12.  virtuous
13.  liberate
14.  falter
Vocabulary 6-1
copied 4/14/09
test 4/23/09
1.  explicit
2.  design
3.  endow
4.  aptitude
5.  humility
6.  vengeance
7.  decree
8.  enlighten
9.  abide
10.  lot
11.  vaunt
12.  reed
13.  sear
14.  cinder