VOCABULARY DIAGNOSTIC TEST

     Vocabulary Units (levels 2-9) are diagnosed and prescribed from the Vocabulary Diagnostic Test. This test is given orally to the student by the Instructor.

     Second grade level students should be given the Second Grade test. Students who miss more than five words (1/3 of test) may need a refresher course.

     Students enrolling in levels 3 through 8 should be required to take a Spelling Test (on a clean sheet of paper). While you read each word from each level in the order listed, give a proper sentence using the first word within the sentence (not the first word). Instruct students to attempt to spell all words the best they know how. Score the Test and determine at what level the words become too difficult (i.e., student misses five or more words in any level). This would be the performance level where the student should be prescribed. Begin student with the first Unit of that level. Do not prescribe above the student's chronological grade level even if he scores 100 percent on the test.

     Enrolling high school students who have not previously taken Etymology take this Test and are prescribed accordingly. Etymology 1097-1108 is a High School elective.

First 1013

Second 1025

Third 1037

Fourth 1049

1. him
2. it 
3. ask
4. most
5. boy
6. am
7. run
8. my
9. up
10. hot
11. go
12. sing
13. we
14. get
15. five

 1. try
2. add
3. plan
4. trip
5. step
6. wash
7. man
8. saw
9. farm
10. begin
11. open
12. now
13. bring
14. later
15. forget		 1. such
2. brave
3. seem
4. lock
5. stick
6. child
7. stand
8. took
9. star
10. cool
11. meal
12. nothing
13. storm
14. happy
15. letter		 1. base
2. steel
3. race
4. writing
5. forty
6. couldn't
7. everywhere
8. February
9. spoil
10. fix
11. birthday
12. wait
13. aloud
14. grew
15. afraid
Fifth 1061

Sixth 1073

Seventh 1085

Eighth 1097
1 . trail
2. nature
3. geography
4. choose
5. instead
6. thought
7. we're
8. noun
9. truly
10. carpenter
11. vacation
12. piece 
13. behavior
14. verse
15. compare		 1. violin
2. support
3. salad
4. Thanksgiving
5. occupation
6. hospital
7. manufacture
8. you're
9. pledge
10. believe
11. ache
12. meant
13. semester
14. permission
15. envelope		 1. tolerate
2. judgment
3. handkerchief
4. prairie
5. preference
6. business 
7. confidence
8. answer
9. jealous
10. ignition
11. destruction
12. honest
13. kindergarten
14. preposition
15. amphibian		 1. resurrection
2. sacrifice
3. earnest
4. commuter
5. temporal
6. conscience
7. besiege
8. deterrent
9. prejudice
10. heresy
11. sympathy
12. porcelain
13. pioneer
14. peasant
15. merchandise