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4. Be careful that not too many classifications are required. 

 Choose words from a limited number of classes, even tho you 

 must use more words from the same class. 



Scale R and Scale R2 are made up with due regard to the , 

 foregoing rules, and the two scales are of approximately the same 

 difficulty. By giving one at the beginning of a semester, a year, 

 a practice period, etc., and the other at the end of the time, im- 

 provement may be measured. 



Sample Scales 

 SCALE 



5. arms, dog, walk, brown, dress 



10. bone, ear, bear, yellow, stocking 



15. stove, reach, clock, sparrow, ant 



20. gloves, stool, rug, write, early 



25. thrush, over, hood, wade, engineer 



30. below, scarlet, buffalo, justice, engine 



35. within, gingham, sweater, dozen, evening 



40. panther, catholic, conquer, freight, November 



45. left, corduroy, waddle, prosecutor, inside 



50. starboard, pair, legal, brooch, bishop 



55. keel, tapir, opposite, tawny, instant 



60. encircling, formerly, majority, sentinel, convent 



65. cheviot, eternal, protestantism, intervening, perpendicular 



70, alibi, turbot, strategy, cartilage, incessant 



75. cornea, lieutenant, pontifical, pirouette, magenta 



80. patella, ephemeral, octile, evanescent, sexagesimal. 



SCALE R2 



5. robin, cow, chair, green, shoes 



10. bed, eye, table, ship, overcoat 



15. pink, shirt, ocean, donkey, brother 



20. muff, rocker, track, many, goat 



25. buy, hawk, under, throw, passenger 



30. above, crimson, oriole, witness, conductor 



35. without, flannel, million, morning, rhinoceros 



40. baptism, coach, January, anvil, on 



45. right, percale, representative, outside, baggage 



50. executive, cruise, plural, decision, barrette 



55. vise, ligament, helm, auk, betwixt 



60. terminal, henceforth, garrison, gazelle, minority 



65. kersey, rarely, monasticism, raiment, bulwark 



70. arraign, manoeuver, interim, duplicate, cerebellum 



75. belligerent, episcopacy, regurgitate, mauve, legatee 



80. peritoneum, conterminous. 



8. It will generally be sufficient to use alternate lines and calculate intermediate 

 values by means of Table 18. 



