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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's definition.





- alighted - - spoil - - amends - - dry - - parley - - succoured - - besieged - - oddments - - beset - - comely -




To get down as from a horse or a vehicle; descend; come to rest.

Pleasing in appearance; fair; handsome.

Reparation, as for wrong or injury; atonement; satisfaction, compensation.

To speak, talk, or confer; hold ____ with an opponent; specif., to hold an informal conference with an enemy, under a truce, as between active hostilities.

To set, stud, or surround with something; also to surround as in a siege or attack, hem in; attack on all sides; assail.

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

To lay siege to; ____ with or as with a siege; assail persistently.

To strip (a defeated or fallen enemy, etc.) of arms, armour, or the like; strip of goods, of valuables, etc. by force, as in war.

Without mortar

British preferred form of succor; to run under; run to aid; help; to help or relieve in difficulty, want or distress; to furnish with military assistance; auxiliary forces; reinforcements.