Word Bank: flame, flammable, ignite, ignition, precise, precision, meter, metric, microscope, microscopic, grave, gravity, grateful, gratitude, revise, revision, athlete, athletic, humane, humanity, suffice, sufficient, impede, impediment
Part 1 Choose the word that best completes each sentence.
1. The long, dry summer made the forest timber highly __________.
2. By August the situation had become extremely __________.
3. A stray spark was enough to make a tree burst into __________.
One blaze began in the __________ spot in which a huge forest fire had occurred twenty years before.
The __________ of the situation increased as the fires spread.
Some advanced at the rate of one __________ every two seconds.
Sixty kilometers of state roads, the __________ equivalent of about thirty-seven miles, have been closed to traffic.
Fighting the fires tested the strength of even the most __________ and energetic volunteers.
The exhausted firefighters would have been so __________ for rain.
The firefighters were showered with praise and __________.
Part 2 Analogies: Type the word that completes each analogy.
One: person :: all : __________
Preserve : maintain :: alter : __________
Kitchen: can opener :: laboratory : __________
Record player : switch :: car motor : __________
Fix : correction :: change : __________
Distant : far :: exactness : __________
Soak : drench :: kindle : __________
Class : student :: team : __________
Big : gigantic :: small : __________
Mean : cruel :: kind : __________
Part 3 Type the word that matches the definition.
Something that gets in the way : __________
To meet present needs : __________
As much as is needed; enough: __________
24. To slow down or block : __________