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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's definition.





- harbourless - - etten - - fathom - - pallid - - doorwards - - score - - rending - - ponderous - - clippety-clippely-clip - - blind -




Of great weight, or heavy.

The sound made by a horse's hoofs, or a noise resembling this.

Preterit of eat, eaten.

To separate into parts with force or violence; tear.

A watchman, warder, keeper; also, a body of persons, as soldiers, whose duty it is to keep guard.

Without light; dark.

Without shelter.

A unit of linear measurement, orig. the distance covered by outstretched arms, now a definite measure of 6 feet, use chiefly in measuring the length of cables etc., and the depths of water by sounding.

Icelandic skor, notch, incision, tally (notched for each twenty), hence twenty; also a group or set of twenty.

Pale; esp., unnaturally pale in complexion or hue.