Spelling Quiz Number Five (Using Sound) [Logo]
Click on each of the speaker icons and write the word that is spoken, properly spelled, of course, in the space provided. When you click on Submit Application at the end of the exercise, the computer will return a scored version of the quiz (you'll have to click on OK in the Javascript Alert again). Take your time, but if you look up the words, a hand will reach out of the monitor and tweak your nose.

Most of the definitions given here are excerpts from those found in the online Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Dictionary. Used with permission.

1. 
the act or manner of saying something

2. 
now and then, from time to time

3. 
vigorous, active; physically capable, especially of playing games

4. 
not happy or content

5. 
little in size

6. 
external show, outward semblance, how something looks

7. 
training that corrects, molds, or perfects the mental faculties or moral character

8. 
the mutual relation of husband and wife, wedlock

9. 
an ordered recurrent alternation of strong and weak elements in the flow of sound and silence in speech

10. 
not restricted to one sexual partner, indiscriminate

11. 
a point, line, or means of division; an intervening space

12. 
qualified or entitled to be chosen




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