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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's sentence.





- eccentric - - camaraderie - - palpable - - anodyne - - pugnacious - - tentative - - intersperse - - cumbersome - - fender - - incongruous -




It all became so routine, so anodyne, so dull.

He knew he would have to approach the situation tentatively, so as not to offend his mother.

He was a man of a most eccentric turn of mind, and great singularity of conduct.

And regardless of their differences, they always act with such camaraderie and complicity among themselves.

When writing, I intersperse details.

Not that the doctor was a bully, or even pugnacious, in the usual sense of the word; he had no disposition to provoke a fight, no propense love of quarrelling.

[P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene.

Now and then he would make a motion with his feet as if he were running quickly backward upstairs, and would tread on the edge of the fender, so that the fire-irons went flying and the buttered-bun dishes crashed against each other in the hearth.

____ machines can endanger operators and slow down production.