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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's sentence.





- mutton - - outlandish - - defrayed - - repose - - paraphernalia - - ambling - - track - - rags - - canny - - cavalcade -




Roast Mutton (chapter title)

Thinking it unnecessary to disturb your esteemed ____, we have proceeded in advance to make requisite preparations, and shall await your respected person at the Green Dragon Inn, Bywater, at 11 a.m. sharp.

The wind broke up the grey clouds, and a wandering moon appeared above the hills between the flying ____.

They take a pride in it, and Bilbo had sniffed more than once at what he called "all this dwarvish racket," as they went along, though I don't suppose you or I would notice anything at all on a windy night, not if the whole ____ had passed two feet off.

At first they had passed through hobbit-lands, a wild respectable country inhabited by decent folk, with good roads, an inn or two, and now and then a dwarf or a farmer ____ by on business.

"To think it will soon be June," grumbled Bilbo as he splashed along behind the others in a very muddy ____.

Terms: cash on delivery, up to and not exceeding one fourteenth of total profits (if any); all traveling expenses guaranteed in any event; funeral expenses to be ____ by us or our representatives, if occasion arises and the matter is not otherwise arranged for.

They were on ponies, and each pony was slung about with all kinds of baggages, packages, parcels, and ____.

"Don't be a fool, Bilbo Baggins!" he said to himself, "thinking of dragons and all that ____ nonsense at your age!"

"You must go on and find out all about that light, and what it is for, and if all is perfectly safe and ____," said Thorin to the hobbit.