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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's sentence.





- sodden - - luminous - - rackety - - proclamation - - superfluous - - snivel - - pathos - - beseech - - clamorous - - pilfer -




The moon, which had been slowly ascending, now shone through an open space between the trees; and the rippling waters of the brook gave back her light in luminous vibrations.

The Tuesday meetings are only thirty minutes now. That proclamation was made in the previous meeting.

She produced the handful of coins she had managed to pilfer

Anyone operating that rackety machine had better wear earplugs.

His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled.

[…] after a good deal of sniveling and sobbing, she owned, that so far from being an heiress of a great fortune, she was no other than a common woman of the town, who had decoyed me into matrimony […]

The sponge lay heavy and sodden on the edge of the sink.

She longed for siblings and pets and a lively, clamorous household.

I beseech you to make the argument for yourselves.

With a full rain suit, carrying an umbrella may be superfluous.