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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's definition.





- keen - - girdle - - penthouse - - yammered - - fretting - - plumes - - billows - - usurpers - - bleating - - biers -




Intense, as feeling, desire.

To cry as a sheep, goat or calf; make a similar sound. The cry of sheep.

To seize and hold (an office or position, power, etc.) by force or without right. Seizing or holding a place of power without right.

A long streamer of smoke, vapor, or other fluid rising from a localized source in the same of different fluid and spreading out as it travels.

Mourn, complain, sad, mournful; to lament, wail, whine, the act of yammering; a loud or persistent talk.

A shed with a sloping roof, or a sloping roof, projecting from a wall or the side of a building; as to shelter a door; any roof like shelter or overhanging part.

A belt, sash or the like, worn about the waist.

A gnawing or wearing away; gusty, as wind.

A great wave or surge of the sea; any wave.

A framework on which a corpse (or the coffin) is laid before burial or carried to the grave.