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 :