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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's sentence.





- sluggard - - spinney - - clang - - bogey - - enmity - - clambered - - rills - - hoary - - snick - - chink -




For the moment there was no whispering or movement among the branches; but they all got an uncomfortable feeling they were being watched with disapproval, deepening to dislike and even enmity.

"If you mean the old bogey-stories Fatty's nurses used to tell him, about goblins and wolves and things of that sort, I should say no"

Wake that sluggard Fatty.

Here and there it passed over other rills, running down gullies into Withywindle out of the higher forest-lands, and at these points there were tree-trunks or bundles of brushwood laid carefully across.

One was a splash of something heavy falling into the water; the other was a noise like the snick of a lock when a door quietly closes fast.

Merry went in front leading a laden pony, and took his way along a path that went through a spinney behind the house, and then cut across several fields.

It shut with a clang, and the lock clicked.

Each time they clambered out, the trees seemed deeper and darker; and always to the left and upwards it was most difficult to find a way, and they were forced to the right and downwards.

He lifted his heavy eyes and saw leaning over him a huge willow-tree, old and hoary.

The crack by which he had laid himself had closed together, so that not a chink could be seen.