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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's sentence.





- skitter - - foothill - - mottle - - pantomime - - scowl - - juncture - - buck - - rustle - - stilted - - reed -




On one side of the river the golden ____ slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Gabilan mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees

Far
off toward the highway a man shouted something, and another
man shouted back. The sycamore limbs ___d under a little wind
that died immediately.

But Lennie made an elaborate ____ of innocence. "What
mouse, George? I ain’t got no mouse."

y. A water snake slipped along on the pool, its head held up
like a little periscope. The ___s jerked slightly in the current. Far
off toward the highway a man shouted something, and another
man shouted back.

That means we’ll be ___ing grain bags, bustin’ a gut.
Tonight I’m gonna lay right here and look up. I like it."

On one side of the river the golden ____ curves up to the strong and rocky Gabilan mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees - willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaves touch the debris of the winter’s flooding; and sycamores with ____________d, white, recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool.

A ___ heron labored up into the air and
pounded down river.

On the sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie deep
and so crisp that a lizard makes a great ____ing if he runs
among them.

willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf ____ the debris of the winter’s flooding;

The little man jerked down the brim of his hat and ___ed over
at Lennie. "So yon forgot that awready, did you? I gotta tell you
again, do I? Jesus Christ, you’re a crazy bastard!"