10th Grade English Mid-Term
Mr. Rendine, English 2 CP
Study Guide
The English midterm will include material and skills that we have covered in over the first semester of the
2011-2012 academic year. The test will count for 20% of the First Semester Grade and 10% of the Final
Course grade awarded at the completion of the academic year. The test will be administered during your
regular English periods on Thursday, January 19, and Friday, January 20.
The English Mid-Term will consist of 4 sections: Vocabulary, Grammar, Reading Comprehension, and
Essays. Day 1 of the test will be the Essay section. Day 2 of the test will cover the Vocabulary, Grammar,
and Reading Comprehension sections.
Section 1: Vocabulary
The vocabulary section will contain questions requiring knowledge of synonyms, antonyms, parts of speech,
spelling, and a general understanding of the definition in order to complete sentences. The following words
will appear on the Mid-Term:
1. adversary
2. altruistic
3. amicable
4. artifice
5. ascertain
6. assent
7. augment
8. averse
9. benefactor
10. benevolent
11. bequeath
12. bereft
13. chivalrous
14. clemency
15. coerce
16. cogent
17. converges
18. craven
19. culinary
20. dearth
21. deft
22. delete
23. deploy
24. destitute
25. discrepancy
26. disperse
27. dour
28. duplicity
29. embark
30. explicit
31. facile
32. facile
33. fallow
34. feasible
35. finite
36. fortitude
37. gape
38. gibe
39. grimace
40. holocaust
41. impervious
42. inclement
43. indomitable
44. infallible
45. insidious
46. intimation
47. invulnerable
48. meticulous
49. muse
50. negligible
51. nonchalant
52. nostalgia
53. ominous
54. omniscient
55. opulent
56. perpetuate
57. premeditated
58. punitive
59. pungent
60. redress
61. repose
62. scrupulous
63. skulk
64. sojourn
65. solace
66. stately
67. supercilious
68. supple
69. temerity
70. tepid
71. truculent
72. unkempt
73. urbane
74. verbatim
75. warily
Section 2: Grammar
The grammar section will contain questions requiring knowledge of the Parts of Speech (including
Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives, Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections), Sentences
(including Sentence Fragments and Run-on Sentences), and correct Subject-Verb Agreement.
Section 3: Reading Comprehension
The reading comprehension section includes PSSA-style questions in response to a short reading
passage.
Section 4: Essays
The essay section will cover literature from the first semester, including Othello, Of Mice and Men, The
Crucible, and stories from J.D. Salinger and Edgar Allan Poe. Essays will require you to your
knowledge of characters, setting, themes, symbols, and conflicts of this literature.