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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's sentence.





- tassel - - copper - - bracket - - crier - - divan - - council - - scandal - - sheathe - - frantic - - wizened -




As soon as all three had entered the room and the door was shut, the Tisroc seated himself on the ____ with a sigh of contentment, the young man took his place, standing, before him and the Grand Vizier got down on his knees and elbows and laid his face flat on the carpet.

Lasaraleen would have gone indoors at once but Aravis reminded her in a ____ whisper to say something to the slaves about not telling anyone of their mistress’s strange visitor.

But before she could take a step, another ____ was heard shouting out, “Way, way, way! Way for Tarkheena Lasaraleen!”

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

First came the two slaves (deaf and dumb, as Aravis rightly guessed and therefore used at the most secret ____s) walking backwards and carrying the candles.

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 ____s and talismans that Arvis couldn’t help thinking the Narnian fashions (at any rate of men) looked nicer.

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

It had already grown almost quite dark and they now found themselves in a maze of corridors lit only by occasional torches fixed in ____s to the walls.

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

After him came a tall young man with feathered and jeweled turban on his head and an ivory-____d scimitar at his side.