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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's sentence.





- betroth - - titter - - talisman - - banquet - - conspicuous - - perpetual - - peasant - - distant - - colonnade - - barbarian -




The least of the jewels with which he was covered was worth more than all the clothes and weapons of the Narnia lords put together, but he was so fat and such a mass of frills and pleats and bobbles and buttons and tassels and ____s that Arvis couldn’t help thinking the Narnian fashions (at any rate of men) looked nicer.

"Never better stabled in my life," said Bree. "But if the husband of that ____ing Tarkheena friend of yours is paying his head groom to get the best oats, then I think the head groom is cheating him."

They passed on into the Hall of Pillars and into the Hall of Statues and down the ____, passing the great beaten-copper doors of the throne room.

The afternoon passed very slowly and it was a relief when Lasaraleen went out to the ____ ,for Aravis was very tired of her giggling and her talk about dresses and parties, weddings and engagements and scandals.

“And with a ____ boy, too!” said Lasaraleen.

Let of all came a little hump-backed, wizened old man in whom she recognised with a shudder the new Grand Vizier and her own ____ed husband, Ahoshta Tarkaan himself.

Lasaraleen wanted to go back on the whole arrangement and kept on telling Aravis that Narnia was a country of ____ snow and ice inhabited by demons and sorcerers, and she was mad to think of going there.

A fair number of courtiers, slaves and others were still moving about here but this only made the two girls less ____.

A second later there appeared from round a distance corner, the dark shapes of two men walking backwards and carrying tall candles.

“How exciting! And on, darling, have you seen the ____ queen from Narnia?...”