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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's sentence.





- stint - - cistern - - romp - - insatiable - - stratagem - - spire - - vassal - - impotent - - keen - - clamorous -




From all his ____s and wars his mind shook free; and throughout his realm a tremor ran, his slaves quailed, and his armies halted.

Towers fell and mountains slid; walls crumbled and melted, crashing down; vast ____s of smoke and spouting steams went billowing up, up, until they toppled like an overwhelming wave, and its wild crest curled and came foaming down upon the land.

Enormous it reared above the world, and stretched out towards them a vast threatening hand, terrible but ____: for even as it leaned over them, a great wind took it, and it was all blown away, and passed; and then a hush fell.

Frodo and Sam went forward and saw that amidst the ____ host were set three high-seats built of green turves.

The crouching shape backed away, terror in its blinking eyes, and yet at the same time ____ desire.

He had ____ed himself, and in his parched mouth his tongue seemed thick and swollen.

Behind them in long swift lines came all their ____s from the northern mountains, speeding on a gathering wind.

Sam lifted Frodo with no more difficulty than if he were carrying a hobbit-child pig-a-back in some ____ on the lawns or hayfields of the Shire.

For at long intervals on that highway ____s had been built for the use of troops sent in haste through the waterless regions.