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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's sentence.





- thwart - - decree - - capitulate - - duly - - categorical - - frisk - - countenance - - secrete - - retinue - - skulk -




For five days the hens held out, then they ____d and went back to their nesting boxes

Whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were ____ delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away.

"Our Leader, Comrade Napoleon," announced Squealer, speaking very slowly and firmly, "has stated ____ly−____ly, comrade−that Snowball was Jones's agent from the very beginning, and from long before the Rebellion was ever thought of."

Snowball was known to be still ____ing on Pinchfield Farm

Led by three young Black Minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to ____ Napoleon's wishes. Their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor.

He ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and ____d that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death

The four pigs waited, trembling, with guilt written on every line of their
____s.

Napoleon emerged from the farmhouse, wearing both his medals, with his nine huge dogs ____ing round him and uttering growls that sent shivers down all the animals' spines.

Then a goose came forward and confessed to having ____d six ears of corn during the last year's harvest and eaten them in the night

When he did appear, he was attended by his ____ of dogs