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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's definition.





- chestnuts - - poser - - spluttered - - ogres - - oddments - - galled - - smart - - imp - - scrabbling - - snag -




To scratch or scrape about, as with the claws or hands.

An odd article, bit, remnant, or the like, or an article belonging to a broken or incomplete set.

Any sharp or rough projection.

To talk hastily and confusedly or incoherently, as in excitement or embarrassment

An old or stale joke, anecdote, etc. (slang). Hence, in extended use, anything trite, stale, or too often repeated.

A question, a problem, or matter that poses, or puzzles completely

A sore on the skin, due to rubbing; an excoriation.

To be a source of sharp local and unusually superficial pain, to feel a sharp pain.

An offspring, usually a male child; also, a person as a scion (descendant) or offshoot, as of a noble house

A monster, commonly represented as a hideous giant, of fairy-tales and popular legends, supposed to live on human flesh.