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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's sentence.





- cake - - pray - - flustered - - morsel - - plumped - - puffed - - throng - - wits - - depredations - - blinking -




Gandalf for certain this time, he thought as he ____ along the passage.

Lots! Bilbo found himself answering, to his own surprise; and he found himself scuttling off, too, to the cellar to fill a pint beer-mug, and to the pantry to fetch two beautiful round seed-____s which he had baked that afternoon for his after-supper ____.

He had only just had a sip-in the corner, while the four dwarves sat around the table, and talked about mines and gold and troubles with the goblins, and the ____ of dragons, and lots of other things which he did not understand, and did not want to, for they sounded much too adventurous - when, ding-dong-a-ling-dang, his bell rang again, as if some naughty little hobbit-boy was trying to pull the handle off.

Bilbo ____ down the beer and the ____ in front of them, when loud came a ring at the bell again, and then another ring.

When the silence that followed had become uncomfortable, he added: "I am just about to take tea; ____ come and have some with me."

I really must sit down for a minute and collect my ____, and have a drink.

Let us join the ____!

Yesterday he had been too ____ to do anything of the kind.

"Someone at the door!" he said, ____.

He had only just had breakfast, but he thought a ____ or two and a drink of something would do him good after his fright.