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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's sentence.





- precede - - extinguish - - decorum - - salutary - - discretion - - infallible - - constancy - - vehement - - placid - - overthrow -




“How well it was said by a gifted poet,” observed the Vizier, raising his face (In somewhat dusty condition) from the carpet, “that deep draughts from the fountain of reason are desirable in order to ____ the fire of youthful love.”

“They will be a small company,” said Rabadash, “and I will order ten of my men to disarm and bind him: restraining my ____ desire for his blood so that there shall be no deadly cause of war between you and the High King.

The cool, ____ voice in which he spoke these words made Aravis’s blood run cold.

And you, estimable Vizier, whether he desists or not by no means allow the flow of your eloquence to be interrupted. For nothing is more suitable to persons of gravity and ____ than to endure minor inconveniences with loyalty.

“And lastly, O my resourceful son,” said the Tisroc, “you have made clear how all this might give you the barbarian woman, but not how it helps me to the ____ing of Narnia.”

But at last with great creaking and sighing he heaved up his enormous body, signed to the slaves to ____ him with the lights and went out.

“My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and ____ are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.”

And you, estimable Vizier, whether he desists or not by no means allow the flow of your eloquence to be interrupted. For nothing is more suitable to persons of gravity and dignity than to endure minor inconveniences with ____.

"Know, O enlightened Prince," said the Grand Vizier, "that until the year in which your exalted father began his ____ and unending reign, the land of Narnia was covered with ice and snow and was moreover ruled by a most powerful enchantress."

“O my master,” said Ahoshta, “it is not possible that any should know. For that very reason I proposed, and you in your ____ wisdom agreed, that we should meet here in the Old Palace where no council is ever held and none of the household has any occasion to come.”