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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's sentence.





- pulley - - weathervane - - hoist - - descent - - hesitancy - - dangle - - asunder - - gravely - - abyss - - shabby -




He looked at me very ____, and put his arms around my neck.

Because of the mayor’s ____, the order to evacuate wasn't issued until the water began to flood the city.

When I came back from my work, the next evening, I saw from some distance away my little price sitting on top of a wall, with his feet dangling.

I ____ed the bucket slowly to the edge of the well and set it there.

I was holding him close in my arms as if he were a little child; and yet it seemed to me that he was rushing headlong toward an ____ from which I could do nothing to restrain him

And the ____ moaned, like an old ____ which the wind has long since forgotten.

It will be a very ____ trick that I shall have played on you.

I stopped in my tracks, my heart torn ____; but still I did not understand.

"You know--my ____ to the earth . . . Tomorrow will be its anniversary."

Everything is ready for use: the ____, the bucket, the rope.