Vocabulary Task

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1.     What a Briton calls a blizzard, would, in Illinois or Nebraska, be a _____, and a British heat wave is often a thing of merriment to much of the rest of the world.

2.     The most difficult wood wind instrument to master is the _____.

3.     A filament is the stalk of a _____.

4.     They seemed to sit there before him, embodied in the _____.

5.     The room was _____ arranged, if not richly furnished.

6.     It spoke of _____, though not of wealth, and was very charming and womanly.

7.     He was all wrapped up like a banana in his yellow _____.

8.     _____ were only for the better houses; here, the streets, alleys and even open doorways were toilets.

9.     People flung their scraps out of the window and at night in the poorly lit streets could be heard the _____ of rats.

10.Canals running through cities were to be used for barges and the underground _____ greatly resembled those of modern sewage systems.

11.Paths were to have _____ for the adequate drainage of the streets.

12.These jobs kept Leonardo from _____ about his rejections.

13.In Pavia one of the greatest libraries in all of Italy was in the _____ palace.

14.Not to mention the _____ of words you could get down between now and New Year’s Eve.