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 : __________