Vocabulary Test
1. Before we left our campsite, we _________________ the fire with water.
2. My husband and I decided that we should clean out our refrigerator and throw out all the food that had turned ___________________.
3. Our car _______________ forward when we were hit from behind by another car. Thank goodness, we were all wearing our seatbelts.
4. On the piano, there are both ________________ and ivory keys.
5. I had never seen such ________________ mountains until we traveled to the Canadian Rockies.
6. The giant pieces of hail ________________ our car, leaving dents in it.
7. We studied the eclipse as the moon __________________ out the rays of the sun.
8. When my son was a little boy, I ___________________ him back and forth between soccer and baseball practices.
9. People with high blood pressure should use salt _____________________.
10. When I arrived at the airport, I began __________________ the crowd, looking for my sister.
11. When asked her age, the shy little girl replied ____________________, “I am five years old.”
12. The teacher explained that her absence would only be _______________, and she would return a few weeks after her baby was born.
13. The rain stopped as ____________________ as it began. First it was gloomy, and then it was sunny!
14. The tiny infant was ______________________ all about because he was tired and hungry.
15. The old hermit lived on a _________________part of town, so nobody even knew what he looked like.
16. There is medication that can be given to people who get _________________ while traveling in foreign parts of the world.
17. The water in the puddle _____________________ after the sun beat down on it.
18. Palm _________________________ grow where the climate is tropical.
19. I can tell that you have a fever because your skin is ____________________.
20. I need to know the _____________________ moment that your plane will land so I can pick you up on time.
© Ellen Gabor, 2002