Word Study Review

A person who walks across the street is a...

• peddler

• pedestrian

• manacle

• quadruped

I had to skillfully ______ my vehicle around obstacles in the road in order to make it safely to the gate.

• maneuver

• impediments

• emancipate

• pedal

Match the following

• centipede

• To operate or control by hand

• manipulate

• A creature with 100 feet

• manufacture

• An order or command put in place.

• millipede

• A creature with 1,000 feet

• mandate

• To make by hand or by machine; create a new product

Which of the following would be considered bipeds?

• dog

• kangaroo

• turtle

• human

The​ (a)   asked that if you were getting a ​ (b)   to go to the side with the "hand" poster, and if you were getting a ​ (c)   , to go to the side with the "foot" poster.

• manager
• manicure
• pedicure

These two pieces of writing are different: A ​ (a)   is a set of instructions or directions, and a ​ (b)   is like a book before it is formally published.

• manual
• manuscript

Match the following

• A root word that means foot.

• emancipate

• Someone who goes door to door on foot trying to sell something.

• man/manu

• A lever that is moved with one's foot.

• pedal

• To set free, lend a hand in freeing someone, or release something.

• ped

• A root word that means "hand".

• peddler

There were several people standing around watching the fireman get the cat down from tree. The cat being stuck in the tree was quite the...

• spectacles

• spectator

• spectacle

• speculate

We weren't there when the argument happened, so we had to listen to both sides and speculate what happened instead.

(a)  

After making several bad grades on quizzes, I need to be more _______ as I take a test in order to carefully read and understand.

• circumspect

• speculate

• retrospect

• spectate