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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's sentence.





- ghoul - - skulk - - mangy - - scamper - - queue - - jagged - - loom - - cultivate - - grim - - countenance -




The mountains, which now looked further off than before, ____ed ahead.

Shasta trotted back through the Tombs--they looked quite ordinary now and he wondered how he could ever have been afraid of them--and down into the ____d land by the river's side.

I did once, you know. I threw stones at a half-starved ____ old stray. Hey! Stop that!

On the far side of it were huge blue things, lumpy but with ____ edges, and some of them with white tops.

And whether he really had been or no, what was now lying at his feet, and staring him out of ____ with its big, green, unwinking eyes, was the cat, though certainly one of the largest cats he had ever seen.

He had been trying his hardest for a long time to think of ____s but he couldn’t keep it up any longer.

Here he was pressed and jostled a bit, for a good many other people were also going out; and on the bridge beyond the gate the crowd became quite a slow procession, more like a ____ than a crowd.

The cries of the other creatures suddenly stopped and he thought he could hear feet ____ing away.

They looked very black and ____, for the sun was now setting right behind them.

And he ____ed behind the Tomb, looking out every few minutes, and wondering which was least dangerous thing to do.