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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's sentence.





- husbanding - - meads - - shoals - - wold - - eyot - - whatever-it-was - - plashing - - gunwale - - writhen - - shingle -




Soon the River broadened and grew more shallow; long stony beaches lay upon the east, and there were gravel-____ in the water, so that careful steering was needed.

Sam thought he could glimpse black figures running to and fro upon the long ____ -banks that lay under the eastern shore.

For the ____ was coming along fast now and getting close behind Gimli.

A long whitish hand could be dimly seen as it shot out and grabbed the ____; two pale lamplike eyes shone coldly as they peered inside, and then they lifted and gazed up at Frodo on the ____.

Aragorn let them drift with the stream as they wished, ____ their strength against weariness to come.

Here and there through the openings Frodo could catch sudden glimpses of rolling ____ , and far beyond them hills in the sunset, and away on the edge of sight a dark line, where marched the southernmost ranks of the Misty Mountains.

Behind them stood low crumbling cliffs, and chimneys of grey weathered stone dark with ivy; and beyond these again there rose high ridges crowned with wind-____ firs.

The Brown Lands rose into bleak ____s, over which flowed a chill air from the East.

That night they camped on a small ____ close to the western bank.

I thought I heard some soft ____ and a sniffing noise, a while back; but you hear a lot of such queer sounds by a river at night.'