Pre-Test 6.15 Spelling and Punctuation: Choose the correctly spelled answer to finish the sentence.

Look at this buffet! The food looks so ____________________.

• apatising

• appetizing

• apiticing

Could you please pass me those ________pastries!

• delitious

• delishous

• delicious

The opposite of a word is its ___________.

• antonym

• antonim

• entomine

A word that means the same as another is called a ________________.

• cinnonim

• sinonim

• synonym

Make sure that the ______________ is correct.

• pungchooashun

• punctuation

• punktuation

When finding the meaning of a new word, look for the context ______.

• cues

• kloos

• clues

Put _______________________ around that phrase to separate it from the rest of the thought.

• parentheses

• parent these

• parenthesise

When you cite evidence from a text, make sure you put the author's name in parentheses after the ____________________.

• quotashun

• quotation

• kwotation

I was in the sun so long that my skin _____________.

• blisterd

• blistered

• blisturd

I knew my dad was joking when I saw the __________ in his eye.

• sparkle

• sparkool

• sparkul